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How does your keychain work?

Authentication dialogs to permit access to your keychain are supplied by the macOS security system, and follow a strict pattern.

April 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.2 is now available

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This new version adds a Help Book, Tooltips, and supports window resizing more usefully.

April 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

New releases: Consolation 1.0b4, LockRattler 3.2, KeychainCheck 1.1

Significant improvements to Consolation for browsing logs. The others gain proper version numbers and icons.

February 6, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.0: a little tool to check user keychains

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This may help you work out what is going wrong with local keychains in Sierra. Another free tool to spare you from Terminal.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tackling keychain problems in Terminal

Sometimes resorting to Terminal can be the best and simplest way to fix a keychain problem.

January 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to repair your keychain by making a fresh one

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OS X used to provide a keychain first aid feature. Now this has gone, this is the only way that you can try to repair a defective keychain: create a new one.

December 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Why do I have to keep entering my keychain password in Sierra?

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When the password used to log in and that to unlock your login keychain become different, you may be asked to keep entering your keychain password. Here’s how to fix this, and more.

November 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

How to deal with keychain problems in macOS 10.11.2 and later

Late last year, the utility for repairing keychains quietly vanished from macOS 10.11.2. No one seems to know where its functionality went.

June 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Entering Keychain password on startup

Why do I have to enter my keychain password every time my Mac starts or restarts?

September 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Revealing passwords

Can I change password entry dialogs to show the correct characters instead of blobs?

August 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

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