Thank you (and all others who responded to my question) for your
prompt and informative response.
See below for more information about problems with making "login"
keychain - default.
On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Ken McLeod wrote:
On Sep 17, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:
Will passing "nil" in place of keychain in APIs like
SecKeychainFindInternetPassword/SecKeychainItemCreateFromContent
will work in situation where there is NO default keychain?
I should point out that passing NULL as the keychain argument when
the default keychain does not exist will automatically prompt the
user to create a new default keychain, *if* the API is one that
would attempt to store an item in the keychain.
SecKeychainCopyDefault() returns an error when there isn't a
default, but if you subsequently try to store an item in the
default keychain (specified by passing NULL), you'll get UI to
create a new keychain, assuming your code is running in a UI-
capable session.
P.S. On a separate but related subject, I have a customer who some
how end-up in the "no default keychain" situation (My application
gets -25307 from SecKeychainCopyDefault and none of keychains
shown in "bold" in "Keychain Access"). However, when he is trying
to apply "make default keychain" to his login keychain, he can
not. The menu item is grayed out. So the question is: what could
prevent "make default keychain" action from been available and how
to fix it ( "keychain first aid" does not report any problems with
his setup).
Is this on Panther, or Tiger?
It is Tiger.
The menu item is dimmed if Keychain Access thinks that the selected
keychain is already the default. It might also be dimmed if the
selected keychain can't be found on disk, or is not owned by the
current user.
If the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist exists,
move it aside and relaunch Keychain Access. If that fixes the
problem, please file a bug and include the contents of the plist
file. (Note that the plist file might *not* exist, in which case ~/
Library/Keychains/login.keychain is assumed to be the default.)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist did exist, but
removing of it did not make any difference( I asked my customer to e-
mail me the content of the file, but have not heard back from him
yet). In the end, creating new keychain, making it default fixed the
problem (that is, my customer was able to make "login" keychain
default once he had some other default keychain).
-ken
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