System Keychain

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#1

I’ve been trying to delete an entry from the system keychain, but so far I haven’t had any luck (I haven’t even been able to unlock it). If anyone has any tips it would be greatly appreciated.

This is what I have so far:

tell application "Keychain Scripting"
	tell keychain "System.keychain"
		unlock
		repeat with this_key in (get keys)
			if (get name of this_key) = "Test" then
				delete this_key
				exit repeat
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell
#2

I think the problem is that you can only send commands to the User’s keychain from an AppleScript. When I set the current keychain to “System.keychain”

This doesn’t work for me either:

tell application "Keychain Scripting"
	launch
	tell keychain "System.keychain"
		set L to locked --> false
		unlock
		set U to locked --> still false
	end tell
end tell

but this does:


tell application "Keychain Scripting"
	launch
	tell current keychain -- normally the user keychain.
		tell (some generic key whose name is "ASPW")
			set myPW to password
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

Addendum: I just noticed that /Library/Keychains/System.keychain has read only ownership and permissions. That’s the explanation. You shouldn’t put anything in it, and you should only add and remove things from your User’s keychain.

#3

Good catch on the permissions, I completely missed that. Unfortunately changing the file to 777 still doesn’t allow it to be modified.

I’m trying to write a script to clean up an application that writes to the system keychain, I guess I can’t via AppleScript or via the “security” command.