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I don't know what "asking for (old) password" means. How exactly is Precipitate
asking you for a password?
Original comment by stuart.morgan
on 13 Sep 2009 at 7:28
It wants to access the login keychain, which as far as I can say started
occuring
after I changed my user account password. This happens on every system
(re)start, and
for some reason when I enter the new password, it does not accept this, but it
wants
the old password. However all other programs seem to be able to access keychain
items
just fine without asking for any additional password.
I attached a screenshot of the window asking for the password.
Also, contrary to what I wrote above, it is still present in 1.0.6.
Original comment by florian....@gmail.com
on 13 Sep 2009 at 8:30
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I see, so the password you changed is your OS X account password, not your
Google
Account password.
Normally the way Keychain works is that it unlocks your keychain, using your
account
password, when you log in. When you changed your account password, for some
reason
the password for your login keychain wasn't changed with it, and as a result
it's not
auto-unlocking on login as it should. The first time in any login session
something
tries to use the keychain, it needs to be unlocked, thus the dialog.
This has nothing to do with Precipitate per se--Precipitate doesn't actually
control
that dialog, nor does it know either your old or new OS X account
password--it's just
that Precipitate starts on login and immediately tries to access the keychain,
so
it's the first thing trying to use the keychain. If you were to uninstall
Precipitate
and restart, then something else would trigger it instead.
You can probably fix your keychain auto-unlock by using Keychain Access to
change the
password for your keychain to match your new account password; if that doesn't
work,
try asking on an OS X support forum like <http://discussions.apple.com/>.
Closing, since this is not a bug in Precipitate.
Original comment by stuart.morgan
on 13 Sep 2009 at 9:07
well, ok then, I just assumed the keychain password should be always changed in
accordance with the account password, so it might have something to do with
precipitate. thanks for clearing this up at least.
Original comment by florian....@gmail.com
on 13 Sep 2009 at 9:22
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
florian....@gmail.com
on 12 Sep 2009 at 9:19