Issue 36 - precipitate - Changing account password prompts precipitate to ask for old password on every start

Issue 36:	Changing account password prompts precipitate to ask for old password on every start
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Status:	Invalid
Owner:	----
Closed:	Sep 13
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium

Reported by florian....@gmail.com, Sep 12, 2009

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Change user account password
2. restart
3. see precipitate asking for (old) password on every restart

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
That precipitate manages to access an open keychain even after a password
change or at least accepts the new password, and not somehow requires the
old one.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0.5 on OS X 10.5.8


Please provide any additional information below.
Upgrading  to 1.0.6 seems to have fixed it, but more likely because of the
reinstallation, not because it was fixed.

Comment 1 by stuart.morgan, Sep 13, 2009

I don't know what "asking for (old) password" means. How exactly is Precipitate
asking you for a password?

Comment 2 by florian....@gmail.com, Sep 13, 2009

It wants to access the login keychain, which as far as I can say started occuring
after I changed my user account password. This happens on every system (re)start, and
for some reason when I enter the new password, it does not accept this, but it wants
the old password. However all other programs seem to be able to access keychain items
just fine without asking for any additional password.
I attached a screenshot of the window asking for the password.
Also, contrary to what I wrote above, it is still present in 1.0.6.

	precipitate keychain access.png
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Comment 3 by stuart.morgan, Sep 13, 2009

I see, so the password you changed is your OS X account password, not your Google
Account password.

Normally the way Keychain works is that it unlocks your keychain, using your account
password, when you log in. When you changed your account password, for some reason
the password for your login keychain wasn't changed with it, and as a result it's not
auto-unlocking on login as it should. The first time in any login session something
tries to use the keychain, it needs to be unlocked, thus the dialog.

This has nothing to do with Precipitate per se--Precipitate doesn't actually control
that dialog, nor does it know either your old or new OS X account password--it's just
that Precipitate starts on login and immediately tries to access the keychain, so
it's the first thing trying to use the keychain. If you were to uninstall Precipitate
and restart, then something else would trigger it instead.

You can probably fix your keychain auto-unlock by using Keychain Access to change the
password for your keychain to match your new account password; if that doesn't work,
try asking on an OS X support forum like <http://discussions.apple.com/>.

Closing, since this is not a bug in Precipitate.

Status: Invalid

Comment 4 by florian....@gmail.com, Sep 13, 2009

well, ok then, I just assumed the keychain password should be always changed in
accordance with the account password, so it might have something to do with
precipitate. thanks for clearing this up at least.