Keychain no longer shows passwords

Since the change to Mavericks my keychain no longer shows passwords, my iPhone no longer logs onto Skype and I can't look up the password any more in my keychain.
What has gone wrong?

What happens if you double click on a password in Keychain Access? I get a show password option.
You also might try running Keychain First aid and as a last resort, try resetting the original keychain.
Keychain Reset

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Keychain won't show passwords!!

So when I click on a keychain and click show password a box pops up saying Keychain Access requires that you type your password. When I enter my login password I get a box that says Access to this item is restricted. What am I doing wrong? When I click on another keychain and click show password the box access to this item is restricted pops up without even asking for a password to access.
Please help!

Trey Page2 wrote:
So when I click on a keychain and click show password a box pops up saying Keychain Access requires that you type your password. When I enter my login password I get a box that says Access to this item is restricted. What am I doing wrong? When I click on another keychain and click show password the box access to this item is restricted pops up without even asking for a password to access.
Please help!
Have you run keychain repair?
Also this might help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1544?viewlocale=en_US

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I'm getting something like this but when I click "Show Password" I get a mumbojumbo of letters and symbols at least 120 characters and clearly not my passworld. Is this something with Maverick, because I've been having a lot of problems.

Show password in keychain.system

I would like to know the password that I set ages ago for my wireless DSL router. It is the only thing in my system keychain. I am able to unlock the system keychain using the password for my admin user, but when I check "Show Password" the new dialog box which appears and requests a password will not accept any password for any user. I have even tried enabling and logging in under root, but it still doesn't work.
I have been able to use the "show password" function with my login keychain without any problem - it's just this one.
I went ahead and deleted the password, which since I didn't know it, meant I had to set the wireless network up again. I was hoping that when the new password was saved the "show password" block would work in case I needed it again in the future. Of course, it didn't work, and I still can not show the password.
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Your admin password doesn't match the Keychain Access password. As for part 2, your login.keychain should reside in ~/Library/Keychains/ and the machine's System.keychain should reside in /Library/Keychains/. I have no idea why your using more than one and why they're not in the proper places. You might want to delete the small one, rename the large one, and delete whatever is currently in ~/Library/Keychains/.

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Keychain shows my apple Mail password still encrypted when I click "Show Password".
I need to confirm my email password.
Other email accounts, like comcast, show the password legibly in keychain.
Can anyone help me with this?
10.8.3 server imac
Mac

You might be able to fix the keychain by selecting
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
from the menu bar.

"show password" doesnt' work in Keychain :-(

I'm syncing several computers' keychains using .mac
Previoulsy one of those was running 10.3.9 while the others were running 10.4.6.
After updtaing the 10.3 mac to 10.4.6 I'm not able to "show password" from the keychain access. However, I changed two things at once. (1) I began syncing the keychains, and (2) upgraded my last 10.3 box to 10.4.
Any help would be appreciated!
TIA

Reading this link below
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh462.html
Indicates that keychain access works differently for 10.4 than for prior versions of OSX. In the past, I was able to "show password" by only entering the keychain password. There was no need to know the "item's password".
Can someone verify that 10.3 and 10.4 work differently in accessing keychain passwords.
TIA

Keychain 'show password'

hi,
i clicked on 'show password' for an item in my keychain and after entering my keychain access password, i accidentally clicked 'always allow' instead of 'allow once'.
now, when i click 'show password' for that item no dialog box appears, so i can't figure out how to switch it back so it will always ask for my password before showing the item's password.
hope that makes sense.
any suggestions?
thanks!

double-click on this keychain item and click on "Access Control" tab. remove Keychain access from the list of apps on the "always allow" list.

Keychain "show password" issue with Airport

I have 3 Keychain items for Airport Express. Two are in Login & if I select "show password" it asks for my Keychain password (which is also my login password), which I give & it shows me my password. No problem.
The third Airport Keychain item is in System. Following the same procedure, I put in the same password & it rejects it.
For both the Login & System Keychain items I get the same window asking me for my Keychain password, so I can't figure out why my password won't work for the Airport item in System. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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In one ocassion, before entering the password, I clicked the "information" arrow and saw that indeed access to the system.keychain was being requested by some application called system.iUtilserver. I deleted the preference file "user">Library>Preferences>system.iUtils.prefs and now I do not have to input the password every time I connect to the airport. The password still reappears in the System Keychain, however. I also noticed that other accounts in my laptop didn't have this problem. One downside of this situation is that any user of your machine can access the airports covered by the password in the System Keychain, since it's a keychain available to all users.
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I have been running ARD for well over a year on my iMac to manage several servers that are located far away from me.
I normally use the "copy" feature to push new zip files of our Web site to the server when it is updated. When logging into ARD today, I noticed all the servers are no longer showing "Control". Instead they all have "Screen Sharing Available" listed in the current status column. When I go to copy my files from my local machine to the servers, I get an error: "This Task Will Fail - The remote desktop software is not active on www.servername.com".
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If you saved the passwords in another browser, then Safari is not automatically authorized to access them, nor is any other application. That's the whole point of the keychain. You should only get the prompt once for each password.

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Thanks

am really disappointed in the inability to solve problems by your staff
LOL, After waiting less than three hours? Pay us the minimum wage, at least.
Wrote this five minutes ago on the other board:
Any backup? *Tried Keychain First Aid?* Firefox passwords are in signons.sqlite and key.db. Don't know about Safari. Which Mail? If Mail.app, only passwords I know about are in Mail>Preferences>Accounts. Do you mean those? I think we need more information. How did you do the upgrade? Did you install over something or Migrate?

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I need to recover my network password, which I saved in my keychain, but can't figure out how to get it using keychain access. I've tried to get keychain access to reveal other passwords which I do know, but I can't get it to show them either. Here's what I tried to do:
Opened Keychain Access, found the network name, and double clicked on it. A window describes its attributes popped up, but the password field was blank. Clicking on the "Show password" box brought a window saying "Access to this item is restricted." I tried to retrieve other passwords in the keychain today using the same method with the same results.
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OK, I played around with keychain access for a while, but finally hit on it. For the benefit of others with the same problem, here's what worked:
There are two sections on the left sidebar, Keychains and Category. I'd chosen "Passwords" in the Category section, and eventually, in poking just about everything in that window, I clicked on an arrow which expanded the Keychains section. I kept playing until I clicked on System in the Keychains section. That brought up all of my past networks. I double-clicked on my current network's name and once again clicked on the "show password" box. This time I was asked for my admin password, hit enter, and vois-la! there it was.
The only thing that had happened in the meantime was that I ran Keychain First Aid's verify and repair (found in Keychain Acces's File menu). I have no idea whether this is what changed things, or if it was just expanding the Keychains section, but now I can view any of my passwords in the Paswords choice in the Category section.
Who knows if this will help anyone, but I'll go to some of the other recent threads and post a link to this thread in case it can.

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