Mac OS X 10.4: Keychain import issue and fix

MacFixIt reader Eli Block reports a permissions issue with importing an old Keychain into Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), as well as a solution:

"What happens is that, when following Apple's instructions on how to get a backed up keychain into a new install of Tiger, the keychain is imported and sits nicely in the keychain portion of the window, until I quit and reopen and then it is no longer there. Seemed to be an issue of settings not sticking or something.

"So I ran Keychain first aid and lo and behold, it told me that ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist should be owner 501 but is zero. So I changed that by enabling root and it didn't work. Then, I changed the group to read/write permissions and then my keychain stuck. Thats all I did, and permissions repair did nothing to help during the process and still wont report that any permissions are off even after my manual fix."

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