MacOS – make unlocking the screensaver also unlock the login keychain

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I have the screen saver on my Mac password protected, but unlocking the screen saver does not unlock the login keychain. I know this because I get asked to unlock the login keychain shortly after unlocking the screensaver.

Yes, my login password and keychain password have been synchronized.

Yes, I've run Keychain First Aid and confirmed there are no problems.

The workaround is to change the Keychain Settings so the login keychain never automatically locks, but I'd prefer to have it lock automatically, especially on my laptop when it goes to sleep, but now with Mountain Lion and iCloud that means typing my password twice every time I wake my laptop: once for the screensaver and once for the keychain.

There should be a way to make the screensaver also unlock the keychain just the way the normal login also unlocks the keychain. Is there?

Best Answer

This usually happens when you change your login password without changing your keychain password.

Open Keychain Access
Click Edit -> Change Password for Keychain 'Login'
Match the password to the one you log into the computer with.

If you firmly believe "this is not the problem", please try to delete your keychain and recreate it in order to get the link between the login and keychain to properly function. (thanks @dragon788)

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MacOS – Run an AppleScript that requires keystrokes while the screen is locked

No i'don't think you can do this the way you want.

Every Human interaction on a PC during Screensaver tries to deactivate it. (Like moving the Mouse, pressing a Key e.g.)
Applescript most time is used to Script some GUI (like in your case --> tell application TextEdit -> does nothing other than opening Textedit like you would do it by double clicking)

So to bring you a way which should work:

do a applescript which writes the text to a file directly and then open the file with the text in it if needed.

something like this:

tell application System Events
    do shell script "echo 'your text that you wanna type' > /path/to/the/file/where/the/text/stands/in"
end tell

tell application TextEdit
    open /path/to/the/file/where/the/text/stands/in
end tell

SSH private key password never removed with Keychain/ssh-agent

Not sure if you have this settings.

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Check the Keep login keychain unlocked to off, in keychain preferences - First Aid tab.

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