Keychain and OS 9.1

[GerrySch]

I'll make this short - I have a PM6500 running 9.1, fresh install from CD. I also have an LC475 and SE/30 on the same home network. Originally, had the LC475 and SE/30 on an Appletalk network and bridging over to the PM 6500's PCI ethernet card, but the printer and modem ports on the SE/30 are worn out and intermittent, but the LC475's ports appear fine. Replaced AppleTalk with an Asante EN/SC adapter which allowed me to connect the SE/30 to the IP network through the external SCSI port. Much faster and more reliable than native AppleTalk printer/modem ports. An ethernet card and drivers were added to the LC475.

Keychain is giving me a lot of grief in the PowerMac 6500. When booting, Keychain asks for my password to access my passwords then responds that my password is wrong and when I re-enter it, it still reports invalid password. But if I reboot and hit the cancel button to avoid any logging in, when I get to the 9.1 desktop the Keychain is unlocked, and my shared files from the LC475 and SE/30 are mounted on the PM6500's desktop even though I did NOT enter any passwords. It's very hit and miss if my share logins are stored in the Keychain. Also sharing files in Mac OS 9.1 can be hit and miss if its file sharing shuts itself off intermittently.

I did some searching trying to find answers and found entries that sounded similar to mine but no answers. Any ideas? Do I have to upgrade to OS 9.22 even though the highest OS officially supporting my PW6500 is 9.1? I do have a 9.2.1 OS installation disc for my (broken) iMac G3. Is there another, better answer?

See, I did keep it short!

Thank you,
Gerry

 

[jeffburg]

Sorry, I don't have much experience with OS9. But in OS X, the keychain automatically unlocks when you log in IF the login keychain has the same password as your user account. To me it sounds like the password you think your keychain has is wrong, but it perhaps matches your login password. You should boot in such a way that your keychain unlocks successfully and then try to lock it and unlock it manually to verify you know the password. Then if you know the password, doublecheck that's your user account log in password, and if it's not, change your login password to match. Once you know the login password matches the keychain password, my next troubleshooting step would be to disable auto-login and then re-enable it. This might kick something loose in the passover of the password from the login system to the keychain system.

 

[robin-fo]

Keychain is giving me a lot of grief in the PowerMac 6500. When booting, Keychain asks for my password to access my passwords then responds that my password is wrong and when I re-enter it, it still reports invalid password. But if I reboot and hit the cancel button to avoid any logging in, when I get to the 9.1 desktop the Keychain is unlocked, and my shared files from the LC475 and SE/30 are mounted on the PM6500's desktop even though I did NOT enter any passwords.

This is just a wild guess, but is it possible that your version of AppleShare Client is not fully compatible with the Keychain? Did you already try to upgrade it?