...wants to use keychain....keeps poping up!
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When keychain problems occur Keychain problems occur when a user's login password does not match their keychain password. Choosing this will immediately prompt for a password.. This doesn't seem too surprising, given the information previously posted here. An AES encrypted file with encryption based on the user's current password that saves all sorts of pertinent things like passwords, logins, certificates, and whatever else you want to throw it at..
You will be asked to login with your Mac account password Enter a new Keychain password and restart your Mac. The other account is the Guest account, which I am writing on currently. The System Keychain is a utility which securely stores all passwords and user IDs for a user and lets that user unlock them all with a single master password.
Macintosh Support - Keychain Management - A message will advise that the repair has been fixed.
The OS X Keychain keeps on popping up on my Mountain Lion Macbook. To my great misfortune, it is not accepting my User Admin password. I have no idea why. When I hit cancel, it cycles through these three prompts. I don't know if this is a virus, a Mountain Lion bug, or what. I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me solve the issue. I have only one user account on my computer, it is the Admin account. The other account is the Guest account, which I am writing on currently. My user account is totally hosed. I can't do anything on it. I can't even reset my keychain. I have never ever experienced this before. Don't know if it's a virus, or what! I had the same issue, and this is how I fixed it. The essential message by default your Mac OS logon password is the the same as the keychain password. Each time you change your Mac OS logon password your keychain password is automatically changed. For me, my mistake, I opened the Keychain Access. Well, in my case, not knowing that it should remain sync'd with my logon, I attemted to make it, what I thought, was 'more safe' by giving it a different password. The next time I logged on and attempted to use any app which had data stored in the keychain - browsers, messages, the OS compared my logon password and my keychain password and found them not the same. Thus all those pop-up prompts are generated. The URL has the solution. If it shows locked, click it, and enter the password to unlock the keychain. For the 'new' password which must be entered twice, enter the password you use for Mac OS login. This is a subsystem BUILT-INTO OS X. It cannot be removed. It cannot be disabled. Every time you use a username and password and the app or OS asks you if you want to save this information, it's saved in your login. Beyond that, depending on whom you ask the keychain is either.. An AES encrypted file with encryption based on the user's current password that saves all sorts of pertinent things like passwords, logins, certificates, and whatever else you want to throw it at.. OR A mysterious female-goddess who laughs at your keening wail of ignorance as you plead with her to no avail. They keychain prompts that pop up are 99. Why Does It Do Me Like This? Your keychain is an encrypted file. The Options Note: These are part of the OS, again, built-in and immutable. Typically this is the reason that people complain about their keychain prompting them repeatedly. NEVER - RESET KEYCHAIN This will ERASE the keychain. ERASE as in gone. Not moved to the Trash. The good news is that this will fix all the keychain issues and reset it to like the first time you logged in. The bad news is that all the passwords et al... ONLY If the user cannot remember their old password. This is the route that people should always take. This is unlocking the encrypted file and relocking it with a new password. Choosing this will immediately prompt for a password.. If that password doesn't work, then it's an older password that it's locked with. Key trying them until they are forced to go with the RESET option. This simple step will take care of 99. ALWAYS, unless the user doesn't remember their previous passwords. OS X Mavericks v10. Follow these steps to prevent prompts to unlock the Local Items keychain. Note: Each folder has a unique number. Move this folder to the Trash. There is no need to repeat the steps in this article, or to delete this folder. The new folder is expected and corrects the symptom described in this article. None of these answers worked for me and the Keychain Access kept crashing. You've also lost all your saved passwords, so this should be a last resort. I had no option though. If this still doesn't fix the problem, delete the contents from the Keychains folder and restore the backup you created, then look for another solution... Your keychain is corrupt. Follow the steps above, but instead of changing your password, delete the keychain. Note that this will remove all saved passwords on your computer i. Here would be the steps... No need to reset the computer, the problem will go away. I've seen this a ton of times with my mac clients and this solution works every time. For me, this would simply be impossible since I obviously! The way the keychain is supposed to be used. Make sure Lock after 5 minutes of inactivity is not checked. I am not sure how it got checked to begin with but this solved my problem! I couldn't change the password as was suggested earlier, and I was super frustrated. What worked was to go to Keychain From Launcher , click Keychain Access from the menu bar, select Keychain First Aid, enter your password you use to login to you MacBook when you start the Mac, select repair rather than verify, then start. A message will advise that the repair has been fixed. You will find the messages gone, if this is your issue.
While the Go menu is displayed, hold down the Option Alt key to reveal the Library menu option. It does not exist as an independent keychain file and is locked and unlocked when login is locked and unlocked. When you do this, you will however still have full access to your previous repository of passwords- but your os will simply no longer use them and require you to enter them again. It becomes difficult to access the applications you normally never need to put in your password for-like emails and browsers. Also if a keychain has become corrupt, you will not be able to change it. I could not run the First Aid in the Keychain app.
