April 26, 2006

Curious, George: OSX Keychain Help. I need to change the password on my Keychain, but I don't know the old one. How do I change a password withold knowing the current one?
posted by Weezel 17 years ago
  • If you don't have the keychain password, you're out of luck. They try to keep that as secure as possible. If it's a password for an individual site, you can unlock that with the main keychain password, and change from there. But, if you've lost the keychain password, the only thing you can do is reset the keychain and give it a new password, then try not to lose that. It'll clear out all the old passwords, but not much you can do about that.
  • Not sure if this will help.
  • Resetting the keychain was the trick. Thanks for that!
  • Did you have the same problem, fooliosis?
  • You might want to try resetting all of the MacOSX passwords from the Tiger Installer CD.