If you have changed your admin or standard password on macOS, you may also want to change your Keychain Access password so they both are the same, here’s how you do that. But beware if you don’t know your old password you have to create a new keychain.
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- Enter a new Keychain password and restart your Mac. Step three: Password control. If you change your account password, you may sometimes find the default keychain password has not changed.
- Oct 10, 2019 This is also why it's a good idea to change your Mac's login password on occasion: It ensures that, if someone got access to your Mac in the past, they can't continue to access it, nor can anyone else. Ultimately, we're not trying to scare anyone, here: I'm just making sure everyone realizes how important a secure password is.
Jul 05, 2018 Yes, you can use Keychain Access.app to change a keychain’s password if you know the current password; select the keychain, go to the Edit menu. You should have multiple keychains listed, ‘login’ is probably the one you want to change but there are probably others.
Create new Keychain Access
If you have changed your password and don’t know your old one you’ll need to create a new Keychain Access.
Launch Keychain Access from Application/Utilities
From here go to the Keychain Access menu and choose preferences…
Click on Reset My Default Keychain…
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Then enter you login password to authenticate, then quit Keychain Access and it is complete, it’s best to restart the machine to take full effect.
Update Keychain Access Password
If you do know your old login password however you can just change it without creating a new Keychain.
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Just change it via the ‘Change Password…’ command under the Keychain Edit Menu.