Osx : SketchUp wants to access my keychain

Gaieus

p.s. sorry for all the smilies in my first post... there are just too many good ones on this forum!!

And have you already seen our SketchUp "smiley's"

(and more - the system only allows 15 in a post)

jeanclaudevandam

Hi I am also a system administrator using a template account.
Everytime this program is run it asks for the login keychain.

Is there a way to disable it?

syman97

I am also a system admin using a template acct. Can someone please help us to disable the login keychain?

AndrewS

@syman97 said:

I am also a system admin using a template acct. Can someone please help us to disable the login keychain?

Sorry, we've been pretty busy around here and haven't been able to look into this. I've sent a message out to the Mac gurus to see if anyone has ideas and can help immediately. Otherwise, unfortunately, it'll still have to sit on the backburner until we can get to it.

My gut feeling is that we may be able to get around it with application signing. We presently distribute SketchUp unsigned. If you, as a sysadmin, were to sign it using self-certified keys, you might be able to get around it. That's just a guess though.

Andrew

bjanzen

If you look at /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access, you'll see that there's a "Warehouse Authorization Token". We discussed this when it came out that it wasn't very Mac-like, but it's really the cleanest/easiest way to handle interaction with the warehouse. If this is a huge problem for you, I could file a feature request and link to this thread. Let me know.

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tesamie

For some unfathomable reason the SketchUp coders think this keychain thing is a good idea, it was never there before Google bought them out.

The way I got rid of it was to run the KeyChain Access application in the Utilities folder and look for the 3 SketchUp items in the login keychain. Then double clck on each and change the access control from "confirm before allowing access" to "allow all appllications to access this item". That then gets rid of the prompt.

Of course it makes the items less secure (though I've no idea what these things are trying to store anyway), but short of being able to remove this thing entirely it beats being prompted for 3 passwords every time you launch the application.

Scorysto

This occurs for me as well. Mostly in my lab setting. The problem comes in with the fact that we use LDAP to authenticate users then map it to a local account. The local accounts password is different from the password that the user enters to authenticate based on LDAP. This cause the login.keychain to lock. SU access the login.keychain. At the moment there is not a way to unlock the keychain based on Directory access such as ldap. What this means is that anyone one in a lab setting using a similar authentication method will run into it. It would be nice to be able to turn off SU so it didn't need to access the login keychain. Or an even better solution that I haven't been able to find either is something that either resets or changes the keychain password to match the LDAP Authentication. Just thought it is irritating because student users that login get freaked out when they see dialog boxes that ask for passwords. If you hit cancel 3 times it still allows the program to work so I assume that what ever it is doing is not critical but it help in terms of user experience to have it not happen at all.

DrSunglasses

I think I've fixed things.... Removing everything in ~/Library/Keychains as the template user seems to do the trick.


ls-mac;~ gccf0$ rm -rf ~/Library/Keychains/*

Before I did that, I removed SketchUp's two login.keychain entries in Keychain Access, but I don't know if that was necessary.

carterx

Has anyone been able to get this to work. I just finished building my college wide base image and this is the only application that is giving me an issue. I too create a default user which all new user profiles are built from and users being promp. for a keychain password will not work. If I can not find a fix in the next couple days SketchUp will have to be pulled from the college wide image.

Thanks.

terrycat_osu

Hello all,
I wanted to post a solution to this problem. The sketchup license does not involve the the keychain... there is no reason to copy that over to your template. The only file you need to copy over to your template is /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/Lic#####.skp6lic For assurance I copied the whole /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp directory to the template.

Thats all you need. Good luck!

losdw

I am also having the same problem, and the above fixes do not work. If I use the local admin account on the system, it doesn't ask for the keychain, if I use an ldap authenticated/template account, it does ask for the keychain.

I would love to deploy this application to the mac labs we have on campus, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.