Re: Keychain use on Mac OS 10.5

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> I have posted my problem some time ago. Now an update:
>
> I use Alpine 1.0 on Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard) compiled with the
> --with-local-password-cache-method option. On Mac OS 10.4 this option worked
> perfectly and the password was stored in and retrieved from the system's
> keychain.
>
> On Mac OS 10.5, however, Alpine apparently does not get the password from the
> keychain. Alpine asks my password every time it starts.
>
> I deleted the Alpine password entries from the keychain. Now I am even asked
> every time (after entering the credentials) whether I would like to store the
> password in the keychain. Answering "Yes" brings up the message
>
>     [Stop "Preserve passwords?" prompts by deleting Alpine Keychain entry]
>
> but does not create any entry in the keychain. Interestingly, Alpine has
> created password entries before (which did not work).
>
> Could this be part of the problem?

See if you have multiple keychains.  I honestly don't remember the exact
circumstances, but I had a 'login' keychain and a keychain of my username.

I think there can be some confusion when the keys are put in the 'wrong'
keychain.  I'm unsure whether this is anything alpine is doing wrong or
if it's the keychain system.

I was having a similar problem to what you were when Leopard was being
created.

Also, I use a network home directory and share it between multiple versions
of the OS, which might be part of the issue (when things change place between
different versions of the OS, it can sometimes confuse things).
Are you using a shared directory between Tiger & Leopard?

As a last ditch effort, try creating a new user on the computer and try
the steps again.  See if it remembers the password there.  If it does, then
it points to there being something in your original user that is provoking
the problem.
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