Keychain

FROM : Adam
DATE : Sat Apr 02 21:20:27 2005

I am using the keychain to store passwords in my application. A user
reported this problem to me:

"Could you take a look at how your code interacts with the keychain and
password files in general? It may be nothing, but you did mention a
problem earlier  with the keychain.  Earlier this week my login
password for OS X (yes, that one - for logging in at bootup) got
mysteriously corrupted and I couldn't get into the computer. I had to
reinstall Panther with the save old system option, create a new account
for myself, and move everything from the old, now useless Home
directory manually into the new account's Home, with hours of
reauthorizing various apps and the odd prefs that didn't transfer over
via that manual method. Mail passwords have also behaved mysteriously
as well.  I don''t know enough about what resources are shared between
apps in the process of interacting with the keychain.... "

The code I use for my keychain is adapted from:
http://homepage.mac.com/agerson/examples/keychain/

Is there any way my application could have caused this? I don't think
so. My keychain code deletes specific named keychains.

Anyway before I absolve myself of all blame to this user, I wanted to
make sure some careless oversight on my part could not have caused
this.


Adam