Keychain Access "Access to this item is restricted"

satointl · Feb 14, 2010, 10:13 PM

Can anyone help me? I open Keychain Access, and pick one and click Show password, it comes out as "Access to this item is restricted". Any solutions?

I tried fixing permissions but a no go. I'm running 10.5.8

-aggie- · Feb 14, 2010, 10:33 PM

Does this happen to everything or one keychain?

satointl · Feb 14, 2010, 11:02 PM

Sadly, all of them

xXxS1lv3rxXx · Feb 14, 2010, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satointl

Can anyone help me? I open Keychain Access, and pick one and click Show password, it comes out as "Access to this item is restricted". Any solutions?

I tried fixing permissions but a no go. I'm running 10.5.8

Are you logged in under the administrative account?

I saw someone who had permissions screwed up or something so badly the Apple Genius referred then to the Snow Leopard Development Team

.

satointl · Feb 14, 2010, 11:29 PM

Yeah, I am the administrator of this mac.

Still no luck

Denarius · Feb 15, 2010, 03:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satointl

Can anyone help me? I open Keychain Access, and pick one and click Show password, it comes out as "Access to this item is restricted". Any solutions?

I tried fixing permissions but a no go. I'm running 10.5.8

Have you bought in the keychain from another computer? Has ownership of the keychain changed (i.e. different account short name)

Did you change the permissions from what they originally were?

satointl · Feb 15, 2010, 08:55 AM

I didn't transfer them from a different computer, and I clicked repair disk permissions. Don't know what you mean by originally though

Denarius · Feb 15, 2010, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satointl

I didn't transfer them from a different computer, and I clicked repair disk permissions. Don't know what you mean by originally though

Can you do this in terminal and copy and paste the output?

Code:

ls -ale ~/Library/Keychains/

satointl · Feb 15, 2010, 12:18 PM

Here:

total 112
drwxr-xr-x 7 yugosato staff 238 Feb 15 00:51 .
drwx------+ 55 yugosato staff 1870 Jan 17 23:30 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yugosato staff 6148 Feb 15 00:22 .DS_Store
-r--r--r--@ 1 yugosato staff 0 Dec 8 18:32 .fl62323D2F
-r--r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 0 Dec 9 16:47 .flA6A9AF81
-rw-r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 20460 Dec 9 16:47 Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates
-rw-r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 25240 Jul 15 2017 login.keychain

satointl · Feb 15, 2010, 08:16 PM

What does it mean?

Denarius · Feb 16, 2010, 05:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satointl

Here:

total 112
drwxr-xr-x 7 yugosato staff 238 Feb 15 00:51 .
drwx------+ 55 yugosato staff 1870 Jan 17 23:30 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yugosato staff 6148 Feb 15 00:22 .DS_Store
-r--r--r--@ 1 yugosato staff 0 Dec 8 18:32 .fl62323D2F
-r--r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 0 Dec 9 16:47 .flA6A9AF81
-rw-r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 20460 Dec 9 16:47 Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates
-rw-r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 25240 Jul 15 2017 login.keychain

Well that part looks absolutely consistent with what I have, staff is userspace permissions I believe, whereas admin is a system-wide group.

If you go into yugosato/Library/Preferences, try dragging out com.apple.keychainaccess.plist and relaunching.

D A · Feb 16, 2010, 05:42 AM

I had that problem a few days ago. The computer crashed so I had to do a hard reboot and the date was reset to Jan 1 2008. After I set the correct date and rebooted I was able to access the Keychain.

The date of login.keychain seem to be July 15 2017 so I think you need to set the date of that file, I think doing sudo touch login.keychain would be enough.

satointl · Feb 16, 2010, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Denarius

Well that part looks absolutely consistent with what I have, staff is userspace permissions I believe, whereas admin is a system-wide group.

If you go into yugosato/Library/Preferences, try dragging out com.apple.keychainaccess.plist and relaunching.

I did that, and now I have 2 keychains that say login. Now what?

satointl · Feb 16, 2010, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D A

I had that problem a few days ago. The computer crashed so I had to do a hard reboot and the date was reset to Jan 1 2008. After I set the correct date and rebooted I was able to access the Keychain.

The date of login.keychain seem to be July 15 2017 so I think you need to set the date of that file, I think doing sudo touch login.keychain would be enough.

How do I do a hard reset?

D A · Feb 16, 2010, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by satointl

How do I do a hard reset?

Hold the power button for 5 seconds. No need to do that unless the computer is unresponsive (you can't open or quit apps).

I think this problem happens because the date of the login.keychain file is in the future compared to the computer clock. You should be able to reset the date by writing "sudo touch login.keychain" in the terminal. When asked for a password enter the password for your account. You may need to reboot after using this command.

satointl · Feb 16, 2010, 03:21 PM

I tried that and it says "Permission Denied"

D A · Feb 16, 2010, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satointl

I tried that and it says "Permission Denied"

Were you promted for your password?

If you were, you may want to have a look in this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=447812

satointl · 11:18 PM

Yeah, it prompted me for a password. Uh, I read it but truly I know nothing about Terminal

EDIT: Should I do the single-user mode?

Anyone?

bump

satointl · Feb 18, 2010, 05:38 PM

Okay guys this is really weird. I tried the single-user mode that the link a couple posts above mentioned, and fixed permissions, and tried "sudo touch keychain.login". D_A, help.

cyberfringe · May 30, 2010, 05:57 PM

See the following for help (Maybe!)

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....01143&tstart=0

http://www.jaharmi.com/2009/11/17/ac..._is_restricted

Good luck. I'm working on this same problem now as I write.

nwbt77 · Feb 3, 2011, 05:45 AM

For anyone finding this now.

The solution is to reset the time and date manually.

This is why all the programs such as keychain 'behave erratically'.

OS sometimes does this on start up.

mr.latenight · Apr 24, 2011, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nwbt77

For anyone finding this now.

The solution is to reset the time and date manually.

This is why all the programs such as keychain 'behave erratically'.

OS sometimes does this on start up.

Worked perfect for me! Spent all night fixing permissions, rebuilding lookup tabels, etc. Never would have thought to reset date manually...
Thanks

10smom · May 20, 2011, 10:14 AM

Geez it is amazing what causes some of these problems. It is like finding a needle in the hay stack. I changed time and date that was incorrect. I will let you know if it did not work.

Black107 · May 21, 2012, 12:25 PM

I was encountering this issue. I ran the touch command and restarted and everything is working normally again. Thanks!

danorlloyd · Jun 11, 2012, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Black107

I was encountering this issue. I ran the touch command and restarted and everything is working normally again. Thanks!

what is the touch command? and how do you run it?
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Feb 14, 2010, 10:13 PM	#1
satointl macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	Keychain Access "Access to this item is restricted" Can anyone help me? I open Keychain Access, and pick one and click Show password, it comes out as "Access to this item is restricted". Any solutions? I tried fixing permissions but a no go. I'm running 10.5.8
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-aggie- macrumors Demi-God Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Where bunnies are welcome.	Does this happen to everything or one keychain? __________________ Google with site:macrumors.com as a parameter. DFU Mode........People with Obama in White Face avatars – proving how stupid they are one post at a time
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Feb 16, 2010, 03:41 PM	#18
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	Yeah, it prompted me for a password. Uh, I read it but truly I know nothing about Terminal EDIT: Should I do the single-user mode? Anyone? bump Last edited by kainjow; Feb 20, 2010 at 11:18 PM. Reason: merged posts. please don't bump threads
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May 30, 2010, 05:57 PM	#20
cyberfringe macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2010	Possible Solutions - links See the following for help (Maybe!) http://discussions.apple.com/thread....01143&tstart=0 http://www.jaharmi.com/2009/11/17/ac..._is_restricted Good luck. I'm working on this same problem now as I write.
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May 20, 2011, 10:14 AM	#23
10smom macrumors regular Join Date: Mar 2008	Time and Date? Geez it is amazing what causes some of these problems. It is like finding a needle in the hay stack. I changed time and date that was incorrect. I will let you know if it did not work.
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Feb 14, 2010, 11:02 PM	#3
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	Sadly, all of them
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Feb 14, 2010, 11:29 PM	#5
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	Yeah, I am the administrator of this mac. Still no luck
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Feb 15, 2010, 08:55 AM	#7
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	I didn't transfer them from a different computer, and I clicked repair disk permissions. Don't know what you mean by originally though
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Feb 15, 2010, 12:18 PM	#9
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	Here: total 112 drwxr-xr-x 7 yugosato staff 238 Feb 15 00:51 . drwx------+ 55 yugosato staff 1870 Jan 17 23:30 .. 0: group:everyone deny delete -rw-r--r--@ 1 yugosato staff 6148 Feb 15 00:22 .DS_Store -r--r--r--@ 1 yugosato staff 0 Dec 8 18:32 .fl62323D2F -r--r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 0 Dec 9 16:47 .flA6A9AF81 -rw-r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 20460 Dec 9 16:47 Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates -rw-r--r-- 1 yugosato staff 25240 Jul 15 2017 login.keychain
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Feb 15, 2010, 08:16 PM	#10
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	What does it mean?
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Feb 16, 2010, 05:42 AM	#12
D A macrumors regular Join Date: Nov 2008	I had that problem a few days ago. The computer crashed so I had to do a hard reboot and the date was reset to Jan 1 2008. After I set the correct date and rebooted I was able to access the Keychain. The date of login.keychain seem to be July 15 2017 so I think you need to set the date of that file, I think doing sudo touch login.keychain would be enough.
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Feb 16, 2010, 03:21 PM	#16
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	I tried that and it says "Permission Denied"
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Feb 18, 2010, 05:38 PM	#19
satointl Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2009	Okay guys this is really weird. I tried the single-user mode that the link a couple posts above mentioned, and fixed permissions, and tried "sudo touch keychain.login". D_A, help.
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Feb 3, 2011, 05:45 AM	#21
nwbt77 macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2011	For anyone finding this now. The solution is to reset the time and date manually. This is why all the programs such as keychain 'behave erratically'. OS sometimes does this on start up.
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May 21, 2012, 12:25 PM	#24
Black107 macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2009	I was encountering this issue. I ran the touch command and restarted and everything is working normally again. Thanks!
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