Apple Keychain Password

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Channing Arther

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Aug 3, 2024, 1:17:57 PM8/3/24

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A keychain is an encrypted container that securely stores your account names and passwords for your Mac, apps, servers, and websites, and confidential information, such as credit card numbers or bank account PIN numbers.

Each user on a Mac has a login keychain. The password for your login keychain matches the password you use to log in to your Mac. If an administrator on your Mac resets your login password, you need to reset your login keychain password.

It won't accept my login password as my keychain access password, so I've tried to "Reset My Default Keychains". When I enter my login password, which it tells me will be used to create my new keychain, I just get, "Write permissions error" (I've also had a different error message).

The original problem I had was that I had an email account problem. I couldn't send even though the password I typed is correct (I use it on another computer, so I know it's right). I deleted the account but then it wouldn't let me recreate the account, the password being "wrong" even though I know it is correct. I researched this problem online and it seemed that it could be due to a faulty keychain remembering an earlier password, hence I got involved in keychains and discovered the problem I'm asking you to help me with.

If you had opened - system library - clicked on keychain - deleted all the files than system keychain will get corrupted , and you enter in user library - the first alfa numerical was deleted in older versions like Mac OS El - Capitan and previous ones .

This will remove passwords saved in it , when you again restart the Mac you have to save the passwords manually in internet accounts like web mail account and iCloud mail account also in air port express ( the wireless network or base station password ) > click on edit and enter the password .

If Mac user has iCloud verification code in his records , the Apple ID , iCloud id and respective passwords , he can open keychain access through spotlight , open its preferences > click on reset my default key chain .

There are more methods by entering in recovery mode and resetting the login password , or creating a new keychain , but every time the most important of all " the iCloud verification code " that helps in every aspect must be in your records .

Try these methods , everyone is aware of reinstating the os , but that is not end of the world you can also take second opinion from apple support senior advisor ( they can ask to send log details ) and within a week the keychain can be reset see this link to contact them Contact - Official Apple Support

In fact, I had several problems, a permissions problem (not previously solved by Disk Utility) a keychain password problem and many difficulties trying to reset it, then a realisation that I was not signed into iCloud and when I was, keychain wasn't checked. This done, the keychain reset works, the Mail account with which I'd originally had problems auto-installed itself and everything is now working as it should. I'm immensely relieved and have learnt a lot. I hope this info might help someone else !

Thanks for taking the time to reply Leroy. In fact, I've already deleted the email account (through Mail preferences) and now cannot add it again. It refuses to accept the email account password that I know to be true. It also won't let me sign into iCloud with my Apple password. I'm assuming I've got a problem at keychain level but it won't let me reset that either !

Thanks for taking the time to reply tygb but I've already tried to reset my keychain but it won't recognise my password to let me do so, so I'm blocked until someone can tell me how to get further 'under the bonnet' and force my computer to let me reset the keychains.

I was experiencing this exact issue... I tried every password I could think of but everything failed. Then by mistake, I pressed the OK-button without entering a password. And it worked!I can also unlock the custom keychain for "Apple development" in the Keychain Access app by just leaving the password empty.

Got the same, happens once a year, long enough for me to forget how to fix this problem with development certificates. Opened the keychain as kindly posted by CloverSly, found one developer certificate that has expired, deleted, and my app works now (I think XCode created a new one that expires next year), so I can expect to be back here next year.

Hi!Trying to use notarytool for an app notarization via script on CD pipeline. Build machine has an Xcode 12.5 installed and currently it can't be upgraded. So, our team decided to use utility as standalone binary, placed in the /Applications directory.The command used for notarization: '/Applications/notarytool submit '' --keychain-profile '' --output-format 'json' --wait'.Before running the command above, we saved keychain profile with notarytool store-credentials command. However, future runs of notarization script fail with a message: 'Error: No Keychain password item found for profile: '. But we definitely see it among Keychain entries and 'security find-generic-password -l ' command approves that profile has been saved.Did anyone encounter a similar issue? Can someone suggest what how to cope with this behavior?Thank you in advance for any ideas

[1] They might switch the BSD execution context, the EUID and so on, but fail to switch the Mac-specific execution context, most notably the security context on which the keychain relies. See Technote 2083 Daemons and Agents for an old but still mostly accurate explanation of the gory details here.

Hi @eskimo!Thank you, for your response and suggestions. I ran an additional step in CD pipeline with two commands security find-generic-password -l '' andsecurity find-generic-password -a ' com.apple.gke.notary.tool.com.saved-creds.'. The first one successfully found the entry in the keychain, however, the second one failed. On which result should I rely on?

We have changed a stored profile name, checked whether it is presented in the Keychain, and pushed CD pipelines several times with successful result. However, after some time it failed and continued delivering the same results with mentioned error. So, I make an assumption that notarytool has not enough rights to read something from the Keychain. Should we run it as a root process, or set an owner to root? The pipeline is running in the same user session as store-credentials executed.

The solution for me was that the keychain profile has to be stored in the login keychain, but not in the default iCloud/Login Items keychain when running the comand "notarytool store-credentials", otherwise the keychain profile, no matter app-specific-password or App Store Connect Key won't be listed by 'security find-generic-password -l '. I think there must be a bug related to "notarytool store-credentials" and "security find-generic-password -l".

I had the very similar issue on our build machine with TeamCity installed. The build and notary script even works smoothly when it is being called manually on the build machine. But when the building process is triggered automatically, such as a nightly build, it failes with:Info [KEYCHAIN] No Keychain password item found for: AC_PASSWORDThe solution for me was that the keychain profile has to be stored in the login keychain, but not in the default iCloud/Login Items keychain when running the comand "notarytool store-credentials", otherwise the keychain profile, no matter app-specific-password or App Store Connect Key won't be listed by 'security find-generic-password -l '. I think there must be a bug related to "notarytool store-credentials" and "security find-generic-password -l".

I have never been prompted to set a Keychain password. NEVER. I dutifully record all of my passwords 1Password and LastPass as a backup. There isn't an iCloud keychain password in either password safe, which is how I know that I never created one.

I'll attach the article that will help; look at the sections "forgot security code" or "if you entered the code incorrectly too many times". One of those should get this fixed and quickly. You may have to create a simple one like 1234567 only to either reset it or "forget it" depending on the option it will eventually give you and ultimately, "tell" your device that this feature is absolutely disabled and/or not wanted. Either of those options will disable this and resolve your issue. Just read the prompts as you go along and all will go well