WPA keychain questions

Hi All -

When browsing online for topics related to OS/X I have found several of my answers here, so I decided it would be a good idea to join since you all seem to know quite a bit about the system. I was even more motivated to join when I ran into an issue with my WPA password...

I just bought a linksys router and set it up to use WPA, I noticed I didn't ask the OS to save my pw into the keychain but it did, when I opened up keychain access the pw was saved in the system.keychain, which to my surprise, does not have the same pw as everything else on my computer, (i.e. my login).

So I cannot delete the keychain entry or even view the pw if I wanted to... does anyone know why it was saved in this keychain, I have several other older WEP pws all saved in a login keychain, I thought it was weird and I'm not really sure how to get/reset the pw to the system.keychain.

Thanks!

John

[hayne]

Some things are independent of user account and are stored in the system keychain. I think this keychain by default has a password that only the system knows.

But see this macosxhints article about recreating the system keychain in regard to Airport problems:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...60318124936642

[bramley]

Quote: Originally Posted by myjay610 So I cannot delete the keychain entry

Sure you can - you can create, edit and delete WPA entries via System Preferences.