Keychain passwords not recognised

Hi,
We have over a hundred 10.5 clients bound to open directory and active directory, OD for MCX management, AD for authentication.
When using various apps, particularly safari, a dialogue pops up asking for the keychain password, which would normally be the user's password unless manually changed?
However this does not work, so does anyone know if there is an issue using active directory passwords with the keychain?
It makes autofill etc unusable and confusing when users wonder why their passwords have not saved...
Thanks in advance, Thomas.

tw002 wrote:
I believe the login keychain is created when a new user account is created, not from a template, using the password chosen for the account. This is the case when creating a normal local account, but we are in a windows based environment, and before the inclusion of macs on the network, users already had network home folders. When the user first logged into a mac (which are using network home folders) os x created the 'system' folders in the home directory (documents, library, music etc). This is the point where a keychain is created, but I am unsure with what password.
Yes, it is not normally part of the template. But if it's there, it will be used.
I could reset the keychain by setting a login script to delete it, but when a user changes the AD password these changes are not mirrored to the login keychain. So the script would be required to be used whenever the password changes, the keychain must be reset, causing data to be lost.
No need to delete the keychain for a password change, just change the password for the login keychain. As long as they know their old password, this should work. You could also look into deploying "Keychain Minder" from afp548.com which is specifically for this purpose. It runs as a login item and will notify the user if the account password and keychain password don't match.

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