A not working report caused by keychain issue

hiroshi / Unofficial-Google-Wave-Notifier

Unofficial Google Wave Notifier for mac

http://blog.yakitara.com/2009/10/unofficial-google-wave-notifier-for-mac.html

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A not working report caused by keychain issue #1

Closed hiroshi closed 15 years ago

hiroshi commented 15 years ago

From a comment for the blog post: http://blog.yakitara.com/2009/10/unofficial-google-wave-notifier-for-mac.html?showComment=1256760545389#c6873114350653752585

floehopper said... It looks great, but I can't get it to work. I'm getting "SecKeychainFindGenericPassword: failed. (OSStatus: -25300)" and "SecKeychainAddGenericPassword: failed. (OSStatus: -61)" errors in the log. Do you have any idea what might be wrong?

hiroshi commented 15 years ago

From Apple's document: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Security/Reference/keychainservices/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000898-CH5g-CJBEABHG

"errSecItemNotFound –25300 The item cannot be found" However I couldn't find -61.

I could reproduce -25300 when I remove keychain item with "/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app" by hand. Have you seen the item "Unofficial Google Wave Notifier" in the "Keychain access.app"?

Floehoppe, I guess that you entered a password but keychain refused to store it by some reason... Any idea?

Also please tell me about your environmens:

Leopard or Snow Leopard?
if Leopard intel mac or power mac|book?
Which version do you use? See bottom line of the preferences windows
Downloaded binary release or built yourself?

floehopper commented 15 years ago

I'm on Leopard 10.5.8 on an Intel MacBook Pro. I'm using a downloaded binary version of your app - version 0.3.

I installed the app, but I accidentally entered the wrong account details and couldn't work out why it wasn't working. So I uninstalled it. At that time I deleted the "Unofficial Google Wave Notifier" keychain item using "Keychain Access".app. I also deleted the com.yakitara.Unofficial_Google_Wave_Notifier.plist preferences file. When I reinstalled the app and try to enter the correct account details, I got the errors mentioned above.

Any ideas?

hiroshi commented 15 years ago

Hmm, I attempted to reproduce the error by tracing what you explained, but I didn't get any clue.

I just googling with keywords: SecKeychainAddGenericPassword "-61" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=SecKeychainAddGenericPassword+%22-61%22&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

Some of them mentioned about permission of accessing keychain. I'm afraid, but I doubt that you may have a permission problem of using .keychain files. Do you use login.keychain for your account informations? Do you have right permission for it?

FYI, mine is: $ ls -l ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain -rw-r--r-- 1 hiroshi staff 121904 Oct 29 20:19 /Users/hiroshi/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

Anyway, I need your help to resolve this issue :)

hiroshi commented 15 years ago

Yep, I got osstatus -61 just after entering the command below:

$ chmod u-w ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

floehopper commented 15 years ago

I think you've solved the problem. The login.keychain file had the correct permissions, but for some reason it was owned by root. I changed the owner to my user using chown and your app now works. Many thanks :-)

hiroshi commented 15 years ago

Not at all :)

I wrote troubleshooting page on the wiki of this project: http://wiki.github.com/hiroshi/Unofficial-Google-Wave-Notifier/troubleshooting