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    Login Keychain Problem

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by skerryman, Sep 10, 2009.

  1. skerryman

    skerryman Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all. I am a Macbook owner for about a year now and since I've had it I've had problems with the Login Keychain. When using Safari it asks for me to use the login keychain every few pages. This confuses me as I never set it up in the first place. Also it asks for me to use the login keychain everytime I launch Skype which is a pain in the . The only cause of this I can think of is that my IT department at college thought it would be clever to set up a login keychain before they handed my Macbook over to me and not tell me the password. I've tried my main password to log into my Macbook and its keeps saying the password is invalid. not a massive problem but still would like to get to the bottom of it.
     
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    hwa1201 Notebook Evangelist

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    From menu bar at the top, GO>Utility>Keychain utility
    From keychain utility, look for safari keychain and delete it.
    Once you delete it, log out and log in again.
    It shouldn't ask for password again when you open up safari.
     
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  3. skerryman

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    Thanks for the response. Got it sorted, had to reset the keychain. There are however several certificates that have red marks on them. A kerberos.kdc one and an apple.system.default one that says "This root certificate is not trusted" and a Dashboard advisory one that says "This certificate was signed by an unknown authority". Anyone know what I should do with these. Still finding my way around OSX. Thanks for the help
     
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    You dont have to touch that, mine also has that msg along with that apple.system.default and kerberos.kdc
     
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    Cheers for the advice, appreciate it
     
    skerryman, Sep 12, 2009
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