Google Chrome constantly asking for Keychain permission?
My Google Chrome installation on Snow Leopard is asking for access to the keychain any time I go to a site with login information... This happened really suddenly - I've restarted and tried different combinations of settings (always allow) to no avail. The suggestions here: Safari keeps asking permission to access the keychain have not solved my problem. Any advice?
Google screwed up the application signing in their update procedure. I'm just randomly guess they switched the OS X binary over to something like what they were doing with the Windows version (a decompiling, then patching procedure, then recompiling) without considering the possibility of differing hashes.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard includes a new code signing security feature that helps verify the integrity of an application. Applications are signed by their creators before being distributed using their private key, and then can be verified on the customer’s machine using the company’s public key.
Mac OS X’s Keychain Services leverage this new code signing feature to verify the signature of each application before allowing access to the contents of the keychain. By verifying the signature, the Mac OS X keychain Services can detect when a potentially malicious change has been made to an application and thereby protect your sensitive data by denying the changed application access.
src: http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/invalid_code_signature.html
As for the fix? Not quite sure. I've just been hammering on Always Allow. I still get them sometimes but ever since I've started hammering, I've been getting less. Eventually, it'll go away if you keep doing that.
Hey, looking back at my guess, try reinstalling.
This is what worked for me. Apple Snow Leopard and Google Chrome 17.0.963.56.
- Quit Chrome
- Open Utilities: Keychain Access
- Search for Chrome
- Delete "Chrome Safe Storage"
- Start up Chrome. Note that Chrome Safe Storage is back in the list.
- Go to a site which requires a password stored in the Keychain. The Keychain dialog box will pop up and ask for your password. Type the password (like you normally do).
Re-installing fixed the problem for me.