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Re: .Mac Synching and Network Home Craziness

Brian:

The user that is/was having the keychain and .Mac synch problems found something on an Apple Support Discussion group posting:

*** BEGIN TEXT FROM POSTING ***
After backing up important data, please proceed with the Master Keychain Reset procedure. To reset the Master Keychain password, follow these instructions:

1. Open the Terminal application. Terminal is located at / Applications/Utilites/Terminal.

2. Type the following command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityFoundation.framework/Versions/A/ Resources/kcSync.app/Contents/MacOS/kcSync -reset

3. Review the text entered in the Terminal prompt to make sure it exactly matches what is listed above.

Note: You may find it easier to copy the complete command provided in Step 2 and then paste it into the Terminal application at the prompt as opposed to typing it.

4. Press the Enter key on your keyboard to execute the command

After the command has executed completely, you should receive feedback in the Terminal similar to this: "removing /Library/ Keychains/.syncinfo/login.keychain.syncinfo.plist was successful."

5. Quit the Terminal application.

You may need to re-enable Keychain Synchronization an any synchronizing computer after taking these steps. Additionally it is possible that Keychain will prompt you to update your settings in a variety of applications. If prompted to update you settings, click the update button.

After following these steps and then ensuring .Mac Sync has been enabled in your .Mac System Preferences, you should be able to Sync normally.

*** END TEXT FROM POSTING ***

I'm waiting to find out if this fully cleared up his issues, but he did mention that one strange problem went away after he did this. We would frequently get requests from the kcSync program to supply a password for a keychain that had nothing to do with computer he was using. After the above procedure was followed, that went away.

I think he found the above procedure by searching on 'kcsync' in the Apple Support Discussions.

HTH


On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Brian Garrett wrote:

Peter,

I've experienced EXACTLY the same types of problems you've described.

I had two macs - both with .Mac sync turned on with keychain being one of the items to be sync'ed. I would constantly loose my .Mac login information in my System Preferences on my laptop and/or desktop depending upon which machine just finished it's hourly sync.

I removed the ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain on one system hoping that the sync copy would come from the .Mac account. Basically one computer being the keychain "master" and the other one being the keychain slave.

Ultimately, I never figured out exactly what was causing the problem, but it wasn't until I stopped sync'ing the keychain did all of problem problems disappear. Ever since then, everything in .Mac has been working fine, and I haven't noticed any problems with passwords or keychain information being passed around.

Hope that helps.

Brian

On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Peter Schwenk wrote:

Hello:

I have a user (network home via AFP) that has a .Mac account
configured.  .Mac synchronization seems to reek havoc with his
keychain.  Of course, his keychain was part of what was supposed to
be synchronized, and it sorta worked for a while.  But now as soon
as .Mac synchs, his keychain becomes unusable.  If he uses Keychain
First Aid, the keychain works until the next time that .Mac synchs.

He also has his secretary's computer hooked into his .Mac account to
synchronize (only) his calendar, so that she can put some
appointments in it.  That part seems to be working fine, but then
again she's only touching his calendar.

To make matters worse, sometimes he likes to be logged into two
computers at once.  I believe that .Mac can't handle two instances
fiddling with the same Library directory.

At this point, I would like to know how to extricate his computer
from .Mac synchronization so that I can get his keychain situation
stabilized.  In other words, is it possible to "start fresh"
with .Mac on one computer, say his laptop, then slowly add computers
into the mix.

Any .Mac and network home advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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- Peter Schwenk
- CITA-3, Systems Administrator
- Mathematical Sciences
- University of Delaware
- (302) 831-0437
- schwenk _at_ udel _dot_ edu
- http://www.math.udel.edu/~schwenk



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- Peter Schwenk
- CITA-3, Systems Administrator
- Mathematical Sciences
- University of Delaware
- (302) 831-0437
- schwenk _at_ udel _dot_ edu
- http://www.math.udel.edu/~schwenk



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