CARBON COPY LOG IN PASSWORD
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So load up /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/ into your favorite disassembler. Given that CCC has a privileged helper tool, it is a pretty good assumption that it will be responsible for managing the private keychain (because it runs with higher privileges and protects keychain access from regular users). Is it dumb enough to be hardcoded? Or is it something smarter and generated per user/machine/etc? Well the latter is the obvious answer now since this post titles gives it up.

CARBON COPY LOG IN PASSWORD

The problem is that the private keychain is locked with a password and I couldn’t find any information about this password. I knew CCC had a private keychain somewhere in the system ( /Library/Application Support//CCC-global.keychain to be precise) so my goal was to click Keychain Access show password radio button to recover the password. Carbon Copy Cloner was still able to make the backups to that image but I couldn’t open it myself (well it is mounted during a backup but that is not fun enough to write a blogpost about!). Of course I used a super smart password and now I couldn’t remember it. Some time ago I created some backups in a hurry and used the encrypted sparse bundle option as destination. When you generate a backup you can select an encrypted sparse bundle (disk image) as destination, and save its password in the application private keychain. This time my victim was Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC). Usually you can’t remember it already in the next day or in the next week, since in a month it is totally wiped out from your memory. They get more annoying when you set a super smart new password with that smug feeling that it is such a great password that you will never forget about it (or something crappy you set in a rush).

CARBON COPY LOG IN MAC

Once you have migrated your user accounts and applications using Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, you can continue to use CCC to back up your Mac to the same backup volume that you were using for the old Mac.Passwords are a modern annoyance and their diversity is something you can’t avoid if you want a minimum amount of account security (don’t forget to turn on those 2FA options, avoiding SMS versions if possible). You can migrate directly from a CCC backup of your old Mac. We recommend that you use the Setup Assistant application (runs on your Mac's very first boot) or the Migration Assistant application to migrate content from your old Mac to a new Macintosh. Your new Macintosh cannot boot from the older version and build of macOS that is installed on your older Mac, so simply restoring your old Mac's backup onto your new Mac won't work. When you get a new computer from Apple, it has a specific version of macOS installed on it, and further, a hardware-specific 'build'.

You may restore data from one Mac to another - use Migration Assistant to migrate data from your CCC backup to another Mac. While this has worked in the past, Apple has made it clear that this is no longer supported. You should not restore a backup of macOS System files from one Mac to another.

It is not possible to completely migrate your old Mac solely using Carbon Copy Cloner.

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