The keychain in OS X is the default secure storage location for login data and certificates
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How can I programmatically “eject” a keychain on OS X?
I'm using a script to eject a small USB key I use as a “identity” drive, which contains some secure information. Of note, it has an OS X “keychain” file on it, which contains some of my more secure ...
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Git osx-keychain not saving password
I followed the instructions: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git , but no matter how many times I type in my info, it doesn't save it.
when I do git credential-osxkeychain i get the "Usage: ...
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Annoying Safari pop up when I click show password in preferences and no favicon support
An hour ago I decided to switch to Safari 6.0 on Mac OSX 10.7.4 from Google Chrome and here I am with two issues.
Issue 1:
Visiting preferences I eventually went to Password Tab as shown in ...
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login entries in OSX keychain reappear after a few minutes. How to delete permanently?
I'm on OSX 10.8.2. I have entries in my login keychain from a previous employer's network that I wish to delete. After selecting these and deleting them, they reappear after a few minutes!
How do I ...
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How to let “Login” keychain access of MAC to rememer my password?
"Login" keychain access of MAC is always locked by some app, but I can't locate which one.
The background is that recently many apps ask me to input password for "login" keychain, then I check ...
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How can I access an old system keychain?
Due to a possible security breach, I recently had to wipe my Macbook and do a fresh 10.8.2 install without restoring from the possibly compromised backup. There's some information in my old system ...
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I forgot my private key's passphrase, but I use it every day
...from my Mac. I think Keychain Access remembers my passphrase and applies it every time I log in to a server, but in this instance I can't log in to the remote server directly from my laptop; I ...
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How can I reload my OS X keychains?
I have some (OS X) keychains stored on another computer on my local network which I've added in Keychain Access. However, sometimes when I log in these keychains are not loaded correctly, presumably ...
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How to re-install OS X Lion if you forgot your Apple ID
I erased my HD and am trying to re-install Mac OS X Lion. I forgot which Apple ID account and password I used. How can I re-install OS X Lion then? And what is a "keychain password"?
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OSX: Always deny Google Chrome keychain password
Google Chrome v.22 will ask me when I visit sites if I want to allow it to be saved to my keychain.
There is Always Allow, Allow and Deny. Where is Always Deny? I hate typing in a particular ...
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Restore OS X Keychain
I have reset my OS X Lion Keychain by mistake. Is there any way to restore the Keychain content from Trash?
I'm asking this because I do find a Keychain Access icon in the Trash Bin. It would be a ...
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How can I retrieve my ssh passphrase from gnome-keyring?
I forgot the passphrase for my ssh private key, but it's still stored in gnome-keyring, so it seems to me that I should be able to recover it. Seahorse lets me recover web site passwords from my ...
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ssh keychain for git pull cron
I am a bit of a newbie with linux, so must apologize straight away if this is something obvious and/or silly.
I am trying to create a git pull cronjob that gets update from GitHub repo every few ...
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password-less ssh via keychain
How do I modify:
eval `keychain --eval --agents ssh --nogui -Q -q id_rsa`
such that it doesn't require a password the first time it's run?
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How to prompt user for a password to use an application in Mac?
Is there a way to prompt the user for a password when he or she tries to open a given application? And is there a way to set that to something different than the user account password? I want it to ...
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How to use SSH private key to log in without entering passphrase every time on Mac OS X Lion?
I use Mac OS X Lion and login remote hosts via SSH every day. Despite the fact that I use SSH key pair for remote authentication and I don't need to motorize every host's login phrase, it is still ...
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Chrome does not auto-fill forms from Keychain after update
When I installed Google Chrome updates, it broke the Keychain integration. Now, it does not auto-fill any HTML forms (i.e. the saved username/passwords in Keychain.app).
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Clear SMB network share credentials in OS X
I'm mounting a Windows network share on OS X 10.7 without being asked for the credentials. How can I make OS X forget any stored credential so it asks me?
I've already searched all displayed items in ...
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How do I use Keychain to open web accounts once the password is in my Keychain on my Mac?
I have figured out how to put a password into my Keychain, and I went to my web account, to change the password, so it is the same in both places. Now, how do I get the two to coordinate, so I don't ...
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Is it possible to view OSX .keychain files on Windows?
I was wondering if there is any way to (at least) view OSX .keychain files under Windows?
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Deleting application password stored in Keychain on OS X
I'm trying to delete an application password. I'm using the security delete-generic-password command. When I execute it via terminal, everything works fine – it does delete the password.
When I ...
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Would Keychain be safer than Firefox Password Manager?
Theoretically speaking would Keychain be safer to use in Firefox than Firefox's own password manager? The reason I ask is because Chrome is using Keychain.
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How do I reset the Apple keychain password?
We're an Active Directory shop that has mostly PCs, except for a couple Macs that connect via LDAP. One of those Macs I checked out months ago for some software testing. Turned it back in ...
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What did Chrome do to my keychain to start ubd messages under Mac 10.7.2?
I installed Chrome to give it a spin. Since installing I get an annoying message that "ubd is trying to access my keychain" usually after login but sometimes for no apparent reason.
I know that this ...
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ssh-agent is broken after running Meerkat - can connect to git in terminal but not in Tower - no keychain access
My mac running Snow leopard 10.6.8 is having trouble handling it's ssh keys.
I could previously access all my git repo's via Tower without an issue. The other day I ran Meerkat to see what it was ...
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Problem with ssh-agent and/or Mac keychain on Mac
tl;dr: I have identities in the ssh-agent. All of those but one gets used; one gets added to agent and keychain when I use it, but then I get prompted for the passphrase again and again, as if the key ...
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S/MIME capable mail application for OS X
Is there a mail application for Mac OS X with S/MIME support and keychain integration other than Apple's Mail.app?
Thunderbird has S/MIME but no keychain access (please correct me).
MailMate has ...
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Keychain access very slow after certificate problems
I have a MacBookPro. one day updates started refusing to install because it said the certificate is missing or invalid and someone is doing a man in the middle on me. Same thing went for the Mac App ...
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When I SSH into OS X, I don't have my keychain. When I use Terminal, I do
Steps
Open PuTTY on my Windows desktop.
SSH into my MacBook Pro.
cd to a github clone
$ git push
Expected
Everything up-to-date
Actual
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/whit537/.ssh/github':
...
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How do I migrate keychain & provisioning profile between two Macbooks? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Migrating keychains between Mac machines
I have a Macbook that already works for my iPhone development, everything is working fine and keychain certificate and ...
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Double ssh asks for the passphrase to unlock an RSA key, but it shouldn't
I have two machines, M1 and M2, both running OS X, and a third machine, L, running Linux. M1 and M2 have RSA keys unlocked in the Keychain, so I can:
ssh from M1 to M2 without being asked for a ...
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In Keychain Access on OS X, Find matching public and private keys
I have a couple keys that seem to have been generated with the same names. I would like to know which public key match up with which private keys so I can rename/delete them. Is this something that is ...
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Batch move of many items between keychains without bother
If I move 30 items from one keychain to another, I have to enter the same password 30-32 times, once for each item moved.
Can I avoid this? On OSX 10.6 Server, using Keychain Access.
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How do you revoke access to the Keychain on Macosx?
Sometimes an application might request access to the keychain to access or store passwords for the user. The passwords themselves can be managed with MacOSX's keychain program. However, how can I ...
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Mac OS X security export won't accept passphrase
I'm trying to export some items on my keychain like this:
hostname:~ username$ security export -k login.keychain -t all -P "passphrase"
but I always get this error:
security: SecKeychainItemExport: ...
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Add Secure notes to Keychain via Applescript
I have switched from Windows to Mac and one of the things I need to set up properly is password management. Previously on Windows I was using a small TrueCrypt file containing text files with ...
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Google Chrome constantly asking for Keychain permission?
My Google Chrome installation on Snow Leopard is asking for access to the keychain any time I go to a site with login information... This happened really suddenly - I've restarted and tried different ...
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Disabling Mac OS X Mail.app periodic SMTP server check
My Mail.app is configured with three IMAP accounts and four SMTP servers. (Each SMTP server is for a particular network connection.) Every 10 minutes, Mail.app polls the SMTP servers to test ...
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Is PGP symmetric encryption as effective as Apple Keychain?
I used to use Apple's Keychain to store passwords, but I got tired of trying to figure out how to transfer them when I changed computers, so I switched to using a text file encrypted with gpg ...
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Mac OSX 10.6 applications unable to store credentials in keychain
For some reason, all applications are no longer able to store credentials in the login keychain. This applies to Mail, Echofon (twitter), iDisk/MobileMe.
I have run Keychain Access and created a new ...
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Exporting keychain: You failed to provide the necessary administrator authorization
I'm trying to export private keys from Keychains application and getting error.
You failed to provide the necessary administrator authorization.
UPD:
Open keychains, in My Certificates - login ...
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How to use Mac OS X Keychain with SSH keys?
I understand that since Mac OS X Leopard the Keychain has supported storing SSH keys. Could someone please explain how this feature is supposed to work.
I have some RSA keys that I've generated ...
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How do you “source” a file in fish?
I'd like to use keychain with the fish shell, but I'm not sure how to get fish to load the ~/.keychain/hostname-fish file to set the appropriate environment variables.
In bash, there's the "source" ...
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Pecked to Death By Keychains
Every time I close the lid on my MacBook Pro, running 10.6.2, and open it again, Mail, Cal, and/or Adium will pop up the keychain unlock dialog. Even if they are minimized to the task bar. The unlock ...
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How do I get OS X's Keychain to remember my github rsa key?
I've created an RSA key with a non-default key name: github_id_rsa. In order to not get the error "Permission denied (publickey)" when trying to push to or pull from Github I have to issue the command ...
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How can I stop the Character Viewer from appearing every time OS X asks me for a password?
This is new behaviour in OS X 10.6: when I get keychain dialog boxes asking me for my password or to approve use of my keychain, the Character Viewer appears over top.
I don't want to disable the ...
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SSH Keychain for Xfce
I have recently switched from Gnome to Xfce on Ubuntu 9.04.
In Gnome, the first time I entered the passphrase, it prompted me to save the passphrase.
In Xfce however, I am prompted for the ...
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Default username and password for *.example.com
I have a bunch of dev domains that are all subdomains of example.com e.g. test1.example.com, test2.example.com etc
They all use HTTP authentication and the same username and password. Is there a way ...
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Safari keeps asking permission to access the keychain
Normally when I save a password in Safari it will get added to my login keychain without fuss (assuming that it is already unlocked). But after I set a a master password the default keychain was ...
