Repair Keychain Access crashes after password change
Jul 30, '03 10:05:00AM • Contributed by: abriening
Jul 30, '03 10:05:00AM • Contributed by: abriening
After changing my password in Keychain Access, I experienced problems with both Mail.app and Safari crashing or not responding while accessing or adding usernames and passwords. Any attempt to change the password would result in Keychain Access not responding. I then tried to use Keychain First Aid, but it would crash while attempting to repair.
The fix was to chmod the keychain's permissions to
[robg adds: Your keychain lives in ~/Library/Keychains, and the actual command to change the permissions (assuming you're in the directory) would be chmod 755 keychain_name. Your keychain_name is (I believe) simply your short username, but you can verify it with a quick ls in the Keychains directory.]
The fix was to chmod the keychain's permissions to
-rwxr-xr-x then run Repair in Keychain First Aid again. It fixed the problem and reset the permissions.
[robg adds: Your keychain lives in ~/Library/Keychains, and the actual command to change the permissions (assuming you're in the directory) would be chmod 755 keychain_name. Your keychain_name is (I believe) simply your short username, but you can verify it with a quick ls in the Keychains directory.]
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