[REQUEST] Macbook keychain help

[ell]

Hi, I got in a MacBook pro that got left with a teenage son for the weekend and he pretty much hosed her keychain. I've been googling how to straighten this out without deleting her passwords and hope some one here can give me simple answers, every time you boot there's an annoying popup that doesn't quit:

"assistantd wants to use the 'login_renamed_1' keychain" her login password not recognized. I've tried all the passwords she has, fail, should I just delete the login_renamed_1 keychain?

 

[frase]

You cannot do much other than reset the password in the terminal "sudo passwd username".

 

[ell]

You cannot do much other than reset the password in the terminal "sudo passwd username".

Yup, tried that it didn't help. Ended up backing up her keychains then deleted everything in her keychains folder in the librairy (not the folder itself) then rebooting it fixed all of them popping up like crazy.

 

[overburnz]

you have to delete the keychain, that means you will lose all the passwords, no two ways about it... Sorry....

 

[ell]

you have to delete the keychain, that means you will lose all the passwords, no two ways about it... Sorry....

Yeah, her son is going to pay I'm afraid

 

[nlinecomputers]

I thought passwords were synced in iCloud?

 

[ell]

I thought passwords were synced in iCloud?

I hope so, I tried to open icloud but ofcourse the passwords she gave me didn't work. So keychains are synced with icloud?

 

[nlinecomputers]

I hope so, I tried to open icloud but ofcourse the passwords she gave me didn't work. So keychains are synced with icloud?

Not sure. Not a Mac guy. My assumption may be right or wrong.

 

[Markverhyden]

I thought passwords were synced in iCloud?

That option is not enabled by default. Pretty certain it's just recent versions of macOS. Like the last 3-4. System Preferences> Apple ID>iCloud in the left column>then check off keychain in the right. Personally I don't trust clouds services very much. So I don't use it and never recommend that anyone use it for those purposes. It'll be something similar in iOS.

 

[chehida]

I don't think you can do much. Just reset the password, reset the computer and maybe it won't bother you that much. If not, just contact a specialist. I am sure he will give you more information about it.

 

[Computer Bloke]

If not, just contact a specialist.

I thought we were supposed to be the specialists!