MacOS – Decrypt Keychain with Password outside of Keychain-App

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so here is my problem:

we all know that the osx keychain is located in ~/Library/Keychains/something.keychain

now i've got this file and i know the master password for this keychain. is there a way to browse the keys in there using a external software or something? I don't want to import this keychain into my current one (if its possible).

Any ideas?

Best Answer

I use the following script to extract a password from the Keyring:


$ cat get_password_from_keyring 
#!/bin/bash
security find-generic-password -a $1 -g 2>&1 | grep password | cut -d \" -f 2
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