Re: Keychain use on Mac OS 10.5

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:

> 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.

The problem appears to be solved. The short version: Apparently there 
were some problems with some Terminal configurations. (To make it even 
more complicated: The problem only occurred from within screen. Alpine 
behaved perfectly from within an "ordinary" terminal.)

I changed some settings in Apple's Terminal application ("Set LANG 
environment variable on startup" checkbox) and Alpine were suddenly able 
to retrieve the credentials from the keychain. Later, even the setting 
of the preferences did not play any role.

I realized that the keychain problem also came up for command line tools 
that make use of the keychain, such as hdiutil. I don't know what file 
has been changed, but apparently it was somehow related to the terminal 
and not Alpine.

Anyway, thanks to Matt who suggested to try out Alpine from another user login, 
which pushed me into the right direction.

Cheers,
Claus
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