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MacOS X offers the wonderful keychain to simplify login to sites, servers and applications needing passwords. While this makes life a great deal easier, the keychain is prone to corruption through erroneous creation of multiple entries.

In the case of Mail.app and Entourage, both heavy keychain users, errors in your keychain will cause strange behavior. If you find any app hanging at the time a login is happening or get the Entourage error "The action could not be completed. System error occurred (-50)", it is time to repair your keychain.

Apple has created the Keychain First Aid program to help in this case, and put up a Knowledge Base article about it (where you can also download the program). Often, many strange problems will disappear once you have a properly functional keychain again.

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I think keychains are dangerous
Authored by: pcunix on Feb 12, '03 02:33:26PM

I think keychains are dangerous. I don't mean in terms of security, but consider what happens if you lose that machine. Yes, we hope you have backup, but who knows: you may be switching to some other architecture entirely or for whatever reason be temporarily unable to have this automatic fill in. Or you may be off somewhere else and need to access a resource that you usually access from the keychained machine.
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You aren't going to remember your account info and you'll be helpless. If you forget about letting your computer remember things for you, you will have this stuff in your own mind.
<p>Just my opinion, of course.



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