Autounlock non-Login keychains on login

The Login keychain gets unlocked automatically on login, if it has the same password as my login password.
Is there a way to have another keychain behave the same, aka. getting unlocked automatically when I login?
Setting the password of this other keychain to my login password doesn't work. Also unchecking the lock after xxx minutes or lock on sleep checkboxes doesn't make the keychain unlocked automatically after a reboot or logout/login, it only helps in that I have to unlock this keychain on once.
Any tip is appreciated.
Peter

Hello Sergo,
Thank you for your reply.
my computer name is localhost.
It's a standalone XP pro laptop and I connect with internet via wireless connection. It's not connected with any Local Network.
Here's how my host file looks like
Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.*
This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.*
This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each*
entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should*
be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.*
The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one*
space.*
Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual*
lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.*
For example:*
     102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server*
      38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host*
127.0.0.1       localhost*
192.168.1.101    localhost
By default IP was 127.0.0.1       localhost
but I changed it to 192.168.1.101    localhost as this IP was in my TCP/IP properties, did I do it correct?
I've Kaspersky Antivirus running and Windows Firewall on. I'm going to try disable both and restart.
Can you please tell me how to check event log in my XP machine.
Thanks for your time
Asif

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New password:
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A better GUI would be to include the reply icon on all posts. If you click on reply and you are not logged in, you would get a little popup box where you could fill in your login information. Once you filled in your information and it was correct, the reply action would proceed as before.
Other forums do this and it is simpler.
The rest of the forum software could be implemented with this in mind too. This would eliminate the modality of login. It would lessen the hassle we see to day with forced logout.
Modal dialogs went out of favor over ten years ago.
Robert

Hi,
The Login has always been thus. Or rather as long as my memory serves which is at least the last two Software versions.
I currently use tabs in Firefox.
If I open a second tab in the communities (normally from an Email Subscription alert) but have not logged in and then do what you do/did - then when the Login is complete I am returned to the thread I just opened where I realised I was not logged in, ready to click the reply button.
It seems the software will work with you on this.
I seem to remember that the WebX software did similar where you could select Login in the thread you were in and you were returned there rather than the Index page. (It may have been that hitting "Reply" took you to the Login page)
If there was a "trick" to getting the last Jive software to do this I never discovered it.
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Knock, knock Neo
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   In modern times our sensibilities have evolved and such vehement passion is reserved for the really important things, like sports teams. Unfortunately the authors of bash have not raised their collective consciousness correspondingly. Hence we are stuck with the workaround that Bill suggests: sourcing one of the startup scripts from the other. This has the effect of invoking one personal startup script under all circumstances.
   When inheritance does occur, many things are set that were already set but the redundant effort is hardly noticeable on a modern computer. (and thus we have time to support our teams) However, care must be taken in operations that add onto variables lest they grow incessantly. Check out Fink's "append_path" function in their init.sh script for an example of such care.
   Now if you want to try a really enlightened shell, check out Bill's zsh on OS X. With zsh you can really tell the difference where the shell meets the road, ... or the rubber meets the rod or something like that.
Gary
~~~~
   Eeny, Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak!
      -- Bullwinkle Moose

Can no longer add to keychain

In addition to my login keychain, I use a non-login keychain named "base". As of yesterday, I am no longer able to add passwords to base, and I am a little suspicious of the recent security updates.
When I try to add a new password to base, I am prompted to unlock base if necessary, after which I receive the following message:
     *An error has occurred. Unable to add an item to the current keychain.*
     Could not write to the file. It may have been opened with insufficient access privileges.
Relevant data points:
1. The file base.keychain is -rwxr--r-- by myself.
2. I've been using this keychain for about a year and a half with no prior problems.
3. Keychain First Aid reports no problems:
     *Verification started*
     Checking keychain configuration for nsteiner (user ID=8011)
     Home directory is /Users/nsteiner
     Checked login keychain
     Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
     Checked settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
     Checked default keychain
     Checked keychain search list
     Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
     Checked contents of /base.keychain
     No problems found
     *Verification completed*
4. Restarting Keychain doesn't help.
5. Rebooting doesn't help.
6. I can still add passwords to login.keychain.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

To clarify, it turns out that base.keychain does not need any repairing. It merely needs to reside in a writeable directory.
As for moving this keychain to ~/Library/Keychains, I don't doubt that the suggestion is appropriate in general, and that's certainly where my login keychain resides. But I use base.keychain for a variety of sensitive passwords which I cannot afford to lose, some of which have nothing to do with my computer. (Yes, I know this is what backups are for.) I had also contemplated FileVault'ing my home directory at one point, so I wanted to be sure I kept critical passwords accessible no matter what went wrong.
Perhaps / is a bad choice. Perhaps /Library/Keychains would have been better. Where would you put a keychain that didn't really belong under /Users?

Keychain issue (I believe)

Hi all,
Last week my computer started acting up and rendered two of my most used apps unusable. Currently, iMessage does not work on my computer. Messages sent from my phone do not sync, and when I try and send a message from the app, it says that whoever I'm trying to send to is not registered with iMessage, even though they are. Also, my mail app cannot receive or send message and constantly prompts me for the password, which it always rejects. Keep in mind, both messages and mail are working perfectly fine on my phone. I think it's a Keychain issue because while i'm in Safari, i'm occasionally prompted to enter my admin password to unlock vague, non-descript keychains.
Any ideas on a remedy?
Thanks so much!

Update: I was able to fix my issue with mail by repairing the keychain and restarting the app, but I'm still having issues with iMessage.

[SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

So i tried to update today like any other day and got this error :
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
After reading the news i proceed to do : "sudo pacman -Syu --ignore glibc", which worked perfectly but "sudo pacman -Su" kept sending me the previous error.
The command "find /lib -exec pacman -Qo -- {} +" found that no package except glibc owned files in /lib.
Then i red "you can safely remove that directory". So i did "sudo srm -r /lib". Screen went black. I realised my error, panicked and shutdown manually.
When i boot i've got now this :
error loading shared libraries libdl.so.2
(none) login :
(and a /bin/bash error i forgot to wrote down)
I'm on an ubuntu partition right now. The symlink /lib/libdl.so.2 is broken. And i'm desperate, any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
(Sorry for my bad english)
Last edited by popso (2012-07-15 13:41:06)

The command ls -l in /lib give me that :
total 3128
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 150998 2012-07-02 17:27 ld-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2012-07-02 17:27 ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2012-07-02 17:27 libanl.so.1 -> libanl-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5544 2012-07-02 17:27 libBrokenLocale-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1967415 2012-07-02 17:27 libc-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 185924 2012-07-02 17:27 libcidn-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2012-07-02 17:27 libcidn.so.1 -> libcidn-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34324 2012-07-02 17:27 libcrypt-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2012-07-02 17:27 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2012-07-02 17:27 libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 255492 2012-07-02 17:27 libm-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17948 2012-07-02 17:27 libmemusage.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2012-07-02 17:27 libm.so.6 -> libm-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 87920 2012-07-02 17:27 libnsl-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30544 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_compat-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_compat.so.2 -> libnss_compat-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26180 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_db-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_db.so.2 -> libnss_db-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17996 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_hesiod-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42652 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_nis-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50804 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_nisplus-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5548 2012-07-02 17:27 libpcprofile.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130395 2012-07-15 14:59 libpthread-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2012-07-02 17:27 libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83772 2012-07-02 17:27 libresolv-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2012-07-02 17:27 libresolv.so.2 -> libresolv-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30684 2012-07-02 17:27 librt-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2012-07-02 17:27 librt.so.1 -> librt-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36005 2012-07-02 17:27 libthread_db-1.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2012-07-02 17:27 libthread_db.so.1 -> libthread_db-1.0.so
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-07-15 14:54 modules
Maybe it will help
edit : The lines lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2012-07-02 17:27 libanl.so.1 -> libanl-2.16.so and lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2012-07-02 17:27 libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.16.so are in red.
Last edited by popso (2012-07-15 13:05:21)

Boot-up fails after pacman update

Recent update of many pkgs failed to load after downloading.
The boot stops at :
Archlinux 0.7 (wombat) [(none)] (vc/1)
(none) login:
Attempts to login fail (probably because I don't know what should go for login)
The hdd can be addressed from another hdd boot-up and all partitions accessed.
It just won't finish boot. :cry:

As posted previously, a recent upgrade was followed by a failure to load the downloaded packages. None of these packages were kernel upgrades and lilo run would not be necessary thereafter.
My fstab and rc.conf follow:#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#/dev/#EXT2FS_BOOT# /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
#/dev/#REISERFS_ROOT# / reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/#EXT2FS_ROOT# / ext2 defaults 0 1
#/dev/#SWAP# swap swap defaults 0 0
#/dev/#REISERFS_HOME# /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/#EXT2FS_HOME# /home ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd iso9660 rw,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=2G,nr_inodes=10k 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 rw,users,exec 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc1/part3 /mnt/drive ext3 rw,users,exec 0 0
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 /mnt/fat1 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/fat3 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/fat2 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/drive ext3 defaults 0 0
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# Localization
# Note: HARDWARECLOCK is either "UTC" or "localtime"
KEYMAP=us
TIMEZONE=Canada/Pacific
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
# Networking
HOSTNAME="n6re"
# Module to load at boot-up (in this order)
# (prefix a module with a ! to disable it)
MODULES=(!usbserial !ide-scsi ne2k-pci snd-cmipci
usb-storage sd_mod sr_mod)
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# (prefix an interface in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it)
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="eth0 216.86.214.121 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# (prefix a route in ROUTES with a ! to disable it)
gateway="default gw 216.86.214.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# (prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it)
DAEMONS=(!pcmcia network crond syslogd klogd kdm)
# End of file
The above files are from the affected HDD.
I note that (none)login: appears with an ID name in place of (none) in this clone HDD when opting for console login from the kde window options, so that element is missing in the other hard drive.
How to replace (none) with the right ID is the problem solution.

Using /etc/bash.bashrc to set system-wide alias

Hi,
I would like to set some system-side aliases and from what I read /etc/bash.bashrc is the correct place to put them.
However, it seems that the root account doesn't load this file.
What is the correct way to define system-wide aliases?
Thanks.

To be more specific, the aliases are not visible when I use a login shell i.e. 'su -'.
According this explanation http://stefaanlippens.net/bashrc_and_others this is correct.
So, do I need to duplicate the aliases in /etc/profile so they are visible from login shells? Or there is a way to define system-wide aliases for
login and non-login shells?
Thx.

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