C S ConfigDotMacCert keeps asking for password on Startup

[George Kerby]

Since I replaced .Mac with MobileMe and synced my G5 Leopard 10.5.4 I get:

'CS Config Dot Mac Cert wants to use "georgekerby" Keychain
Please enter password'

This happens every time I start the machine.

And, like another poster complained this AM, Safari wants the same. Neither
of these ever happened before the MobileMe fiasco. I look in my Keychain
Utility and the only mention of Safari key is in the form fill-out.

I wouldn't be bugging you guys but Apple has produced such a bug-riddled
replacement for what was a good product that tech support is no longer
offered for MobileMe vict - err, customers.

Thanks in advance for any work-arounds.

[Ian Gregory]

On 2008-07-30, George Kerby <ghost_...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 'CS Config Dot Mac Cert wants to use "georgekerby" Keychain
> Please enter password'

Speaking of Keychain. I was surprised by something recently. I was
logged in to my account on my iMac and a friend who was with me was
browsing in Safari. At one point he went to a website where he had to
log in and Safari popped up the question about whether we wanted to save
the password in my Keychain. Clearly we didn't, so I clicked "Never for
this website" and it asked me to authenticate using my Keychain
password!!

It took a few seconds for me to realise that if you don't want to ever
save that password in your Keychain then that fact has to be stored
somewhere. It gets stored in the Keychain itself, which means you have
to grant access if it is locked. I didn't authenticate and instead we
tried logging in to the site again and this time clicked "Now now"
instead of "Never" - it didn't ask me to authenticate.

So I guess my general point is that there can be valid but non-obvious
reasons for being asked to authenticate. I don't know anything about
MobileMe so I can't help in this specific case.

Ian