On relaunch, a new keychain and application password entry in the user’s login keychain are created. Once the Lync application is quit, the keychain and application password entry are automatically deleted. The keychain and password entry in the user’s login keychain are created when Lync connects to the Lync server. When Lync is relaunched, it will generate a new keychain file with a new randomized password and store it in /Users/username/Library/Keychains.Īn interesting thing about this OC_Ke圜ontainer keychain and associated password entry is that the persistence of it appears to be tied to whether or not Lync is set to save the user’s account password. Removing the keychain file will force Lync to create a new one. In that event, a pop-up may appear requesting a password. Occasionally, something in Lync happens that causes this keychain to refuse to work properly. The password to unlock that keychain is then stored in the user’s login keychain. The file is physically stored in /Users/username/Library/Keychains and is named something similar to password for this keychain is not tied to the user’s account password and it looks like the Lync program itself will automatically generate a randomized password for it. Microsoft Lync creates a keychain file to store encryption keys. On relaunch, the prompt no longer appeared. Remove the file from /Users/username/Library/Keychains.ĥ. Go to /Users/username/Library/Keychainsģ. When I checked, the user’s login keychain was unlocked and using the current password, so it didn’t appear to be caused by the login keychain password issues that I normally deal with.Īfter some research, I was able to find the answer and get this issue fixed. The curious thing was that the keychain prompt would not accept the user’s current login password. When the Lync application logged into the Lync server, a Microsoft Lync wants to use Please enter the keychain password prompt appeared. One of my users ran into an issue recently when launching Microsoft Lync.
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