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Like many people needing to program and to write German texts, I use the excellent U.S. Keyboard map with German Umlauts provided by Jan Borchers. However, there is a pitfall when upgrading to Snow Leopard: The “Please enter password to do this” dialog no longer appears when needed, e.g. when installing the 10.6.1 update.

Here’s the quick fix: Delete the content of ~/Library/Preferences/By Host and log out and back in. The authentication dialog should work now, but you lost the German Umlauts.

The complete solution goes like this: To regain the German Umlauts, delete the Roman.bundle in ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts. Now re-install the current version of it into /Library/Keyboard Layouts, and not into your home folder.

After that, your German Umlauts should work fine again. At least they did for me.