[Macpartners] Rebuild System Keychain?

[Matthew Walburn]

Right. I know where things _should_ be. :) I have successfully done the 
MIT/Safari cert install before, but it's not working because I don't 
have the passwords to one of these keychains. Presumably it's because I 
imported the System Keychain and my own keychain from a previous 
Panther install and did it incorrectly. I'm trying to redo these 
without doing another reinstall.

I need to recreate the system X509Anchors and X509Certificates 
keychains as well as my own.

Thanks!

-Matthew

On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Albert Willis wrote:

> Matthew--
>
> we've documented how to import the MIT certificate authority into the 
> X509Anchors keychain at http://itinfo.mit.edu/article?id=6667.
>
> The short description is that every user has a default keychain in 
> their home directory (is ~/Library/Keychains). For accounts that were 
> created on Mac OS X 10.3, it's called login.keychain. For accounts 
> created on Mac OS X 10.2, the default keychain name is the same as 
> that user's short name.
>
> So, your keychains are in your home directory. The other keychains 
> belong to the system.
>
> Once you import the MIT CA into the X509Anchors keychain, you 
> shouldn't have to configure anything else. Let us know if you have 
> further questions.
>
>   -- Al
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Matthew Walburn wrote:
>
>> Actually, it's in /System/Library/Keychains
>>
>> It remade itself, but actually it appears that the problem is with 
>> the X509Anchors and X509Certificates keychains. I'm a bit leary of 
>> deleting these. I'm trying to get MIT certs imported, but maybe I'll 
>> just keep using Mozilla unless you all have some ideas for me.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Matthew
>>
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>>
>>> It is in your ~/Library/Keychains folder and you can delete the file 
>>> and start over.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>> On Jun 4, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Matthew Walburn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there, I noticed this morning that I have no idea what my System 
>>>> Keychain password is on 10.3. Anyone know how to reset this 
>>>> keychain or make a new one?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -Matthew
>>>>
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>>>> Matthew Walburn, RHCE
>>>> Computer Systems Specialist
>>>> MIT Department of Mathematics - x. 3-4995
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Matthew Walburn, RHCE
Computer Systems Specialist
MIT Department of Mathematics - x. 3-4995