[Macpartners] Keychain transfer in High Sierra?

[Brenna Levitin]

Hello all,

I'm interested in speaking to anyone who has successfully transferred a Mac
keychain from one computer (ideally running 10.11 (El Capitan) or later) to
a new computer, running 10.12 (Sierra) or 10.13 (High Sierra).

I'm specifically looking for a method to transfer the keychain *without *using
Migration Assistant and migrating the entire account.

The most recent documentation I can find is this fairly outdated (links to
a deprecated page) Apple page:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20120?locale=en_US

I've tried following these instructions (copy login.keychain from
~/Library/Keychains, rename and transfer to new computer, in Keychain
Access --> Add Keychain), but I've ended up with a variety of errors or odd
behavior, including OS X prompting for the password to the old keychain on
every restart or entirely randomly.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Best,
Brenna Levitin

Desktop Support Technician
Whitehead Institute
blevitin at wi.mit.edu
(617)258-5134 <(617)%20258-5134>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/macpartners/attachments/20180216/319a6b43/attachment.html