Hi Alex, As far as I'm aware, you only have access to the keychain of the user that you are currently logged in to. So, I believe what it's telling you to do is to change the password using the method you started doing, then mess with the keychain after you get into the other account. What I sully do is just login to the other account, then promptly change it's password again which will, by default, reset the keychain for that account. Sometimes you'll get keychain errors when you try to login to the account right after the initial password change, but you can usually escape your way through those errors.
Hope this makes sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to log into a long disused account on my Mac, to see what's so > huge in there that it's taking all my drive space. The thing is, I can't > remember the password. When I tried to change it via the admin account I > normally use, I got an odd error: > > Resetting the account password doesn't reset the password for the user's > "login" keychain. To reset the password for the "login" keychain, use > Keychain Access, located in the Utilities folder. > > As my goal is to reset the login password, this sounds like it won't do the > trick. I opened Keychain Access, but am not sure what I am looking at, or > where to find the login password for this account. Any ideas? Thanks! > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
