How to get a corrected password item back into KeyChain.

[blackxacto]

19,1 iMac, Sonoma 14.6, I deleted a few key chain items regarding my electric utility. The purpose was to delete wrong password and info, and replace w correct. So I have correctly replaced my 1P password and info, also replace Safari passwords for the utility.

Please don't lecture me on using multiple storage for passwords. W multiples I always have backups.

My problem is adding the new password and info to Sonoma Key Chain. I normally don't think about keychain, but this time the new password and info were not automatically stored in Key Chain. Does anyone know how to get it into Key Chain? Remember I manually deleted the bad Key Chain items for this electric utility.

 

[Weaselboy]

Go to the electric utility web site and logout of your account. Then log back in with the new password. You should get a popup that asks if you want to update Keychain with the new password.

 

[bradman83]

There's an app in your Applications -> Utilities folder called Keychain Access. You can either edit an existing entry for your electric utility to create a new one using this app. The app is redundant with Safari's password manager for iCloud keychains, but this will allow you to add or edit non-icloud, device-specific keychain entries.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

OP, good for you to think redundant backups. Losing passwords would be like losing an entire physical keychain.

However, may I offer that you might want to backup the whole system with Time Machine or similar... not just your keychains. They two will be backed up (all combinations of the one you have) and- since you care about data security- if you use 2 discs you can significantly upgrade your backup security. Store one offsite and regularly rotate it with the onsite one.

Not only could you recover your keychains/passwords in all apps but everything else on your computer or computers too. Best rule of thumb: tally up total storage in all Macs/computers and then multiply that by at least 3. Buy at least that much storage in 2+ HDDs. Set up TM and basically forget about it for most of the time... until it's the regular time to rotate the at-home/office drive with the offsite backup.