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MacOS password prompt for Keychain access twice

I did a migration of Keychain items between Macs and MacOS was prompting me to type the password twice to authorise access. To avoid this Apple suggest changing the password of the Keychain “login” (the problematic) and setting it back to the same password. This did fix it for me but the option to change […]

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Migrate Apple Keychain to a new Mac

I needed to migrate some passwords from Apple Keychain to a new Mac. In particular iTerm2 password manager, Coda/Transmit + Cyberduck passwords. After doing a replace to ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db with the old login.keychain-db file that destroyed my Apple ID. I found the solution on https://library.panic.com/general/keychain-migration/ What I ended up doing was copying the old login.keychain-db to […]