{"id":2064,"date":"2008-03-02T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/pesky-keychain-password-prompt\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T20:08:05","slug":"pesky-keychain-password-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/pesky-keychain-password-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"pesky keychain password prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I rebooted my computer the Keychain prompted me for a password. I had seen this on other people machines before. The peskiness of this issue is rather windowesk. I am so glad that I could fix it! I got out the backup of my machine and copied the contents of ~\/Library\/Keychains from there. Reboot. Done, works again. Needless to say that I made a quick copy of this Keychains directory.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was that none of my passwords really work. 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