Comments on: MySync 0.78b: .Mac syncing without the .Mac http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/22/mysync-078b-mac-syncing-without-the-mac/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: sjk http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/22/mysync-078b-mac-syncing-without-the-mac/#comment-4654 sjk Sun, 21 May 2006 21:54:27 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/22/mysync-078b-mac-syncing-without-the-mac/#comment-4654 The hack I use for Keychain "synching" is to regularly copy login.keychain from my primary Mac to a secondary keychain file on each of my other two Macs. If I were adding more unique entries to login.keychain on the non-primary Macs then I'd copy that keychain to the other Macs, but so far it's easier occasionally creating a redundant entry on the primary Mac for any that happen to be created on the others. More specifically, I run rsync on each non-primary Mac to pull login.keychain from the primary Mac. Initiating the transfer from my iBook works better than relying on it being up at certain times to receive a copy pushed from my iMac. I pull other files from the iMac to the iBook, too. That method "realized itself" a couple years ago when I considered the hassle of trying to keep a single login.keychain file reliably synchronized after getting more Macs and I'm still satisfied with it. The hack I use for Keychain “synching” is to regularly copy login.keychain from my primary Mac to a secondary keychain file on each of my other two Macs. If I were adding more unique entries to login.keychain on the non-primary Macs then I’d copy that keychain to the other Macs, but so far it’s easier occasionally creating a redundant entry on the primary Mac for any that happen to be created on the others.

More specifically, I run rsync on each non-primary Mac to pull login.keychain from the primary Mac. Initiating the transfer from my iBook works better than relying on it being up at certain times to receive a copy pushed from my iMac. I pull other files from the iMac to the iBook, too.

That method “realized itself” a couple years ago when I considered the hassle of trying to keep a single login.keychain file reliably synchronized after getting more Macs and I’m still satisfied with it.

]]> By: Chris http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/22/mysync-078b-mac-syncing-without-the-mac/#comment-4644 Chris Sun, 21 May 2006 18:26:17 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/22/mysync-078b-mac-syncing-without-the-mac/#comment-4644 It would be great to sync my contacts, calendar, etc. from Mac to Mac. Unfortunately, the syncing feature I need the most is keychain syncing, something MySync does not support. :-/ It would be great to sync my contacts, calendar, etc. from Mac to Mac. Unfortunately, the syncing feature I need the most is keychain syncing, something MySync does not support. :-/

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