Archives for February, 2007
Apple KBase Article: Resetting your keychain in OS X
Resetting your keychain in Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4: If Keychain First Aid finds an issue that it cannot repair, or if you do not know your keychain password, you may need to reset your keychain. (Resetting a keychain deletes a keychain reference while preserving the keychain file.)
Here’s a good Apple Knowledge Base article about resetting your login keychain to keep on hand in your browser favorites. The only thing I would add to it, which isn’t made clear; resetting your keychain in this manner will rename your old keychain to “login_renamed#.keychain” (where # is a number), which can be opened manually in Keychain Access again to copy digital certificates and other passwords to the new login.keychain — this is presuming, of course, that your old keychain is not so corrupt that it can’t be opened.
No, I’m Not That Jim Mitchell
For those of you landing here from bvbl.net, I just want to let you know I am not the Jim Mitchell the author seems to think I am.
No; I am a different Jim Mitchell who was lucky enough to grab the internet domain the candidate by the same name used for his unsuccessful race a few years back. The author should have done a little more research before posting the link.
While politics interest me to some minor degree, this Jim Mitchell would never put himself in the position of running for public office strictly for ethical reasons — which is that I still have some left (ethics, that is), which is far more than can be said for 96.732% of our federal civil servants.
Another “Limited” Zero-Day Vulnerability
Microsoft posted a Security Advisory (932553) about a new “limited” zero-day security hole in Excel today. The advisory goes on to warn that other Office apps could be at risk as well.
I’d suggest you check it out if you’re a heavy (or even moderate) MSO user.
