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#Mac skype prompts for keychain password how to#
#Mac skype prompts for keychain password for mac os#
#Mac skype prompts for keychain password mac os x#

Beyond that, depending on whom you ask the keychain is either.Īn 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.Ī mysterious female-goddess who laughs at your keening wail of ignorance as you plead with her to no avail. It cannot be disabled.Įvery 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.keychain file. Restart your mac those pop-ups will hopefully stop.This will restore the two to be the same and in sync

#Mac skype prompts for keychain password for mac os#

For the 'new' password which must be entered twice, enter the password you use for Mac OS login.

In the window that appears, the 'old' password is the 'current' keychain password' - probably something you changed intentionally and possibly recently.

From the Edit menu in the menu bar choose 'Change Password for Keychain "login".

On the left side under the heading Keychains, there should be an item named login, click it.

(you may have to use your old password to unlock it, you may have to cancel one of the symptom pop ups to get the unlock dialog). If it shows locked, click it, and enter the password to unlock the keychain.

In the upper left corner is a lock, if it is unlocked - good.

Thus all those pop-up prompts are generated. The next time I logged on and attempted to use my Mac anything which had data stored in the keychain - browsers, messages, the OS - compared my logon password and my keychain password and found them to be different. Well, in my case, not knowing that it should remain synchronized with my logon, I attempted to make it, what I thought, was 'more safe' by giving it a different password.īig mistake. Each time you change your Mac OS logon password your keychain password is automatically changed.įor me, my mistake, I opened the Keychain Access.app which is located in /Applications/Utilities, and within the menu bar under "Edit" is the option to change your Keychain password. The essential message by default your Mac OS logon password is the the same as the keychain password. I had the same issue, and this is how I fixed it. I have never ever experienced this before.

#Mac skype prompts for keychain password how to#

I do not have the install disc, so I don't know how to reinstall OS X without it.I tried to delete my User/Admin account (remember, they are the same) but when I went to User Accounts, the "minus" sign was grayed out: I could add accounts, but I could not remove my Admin account.Deleting the keychain from user account (program crashed when I tried to reset it).By "hosed" I mean I will try to delete my keychain, and I'll type in my password, but the program will just crash. The other account is the Guest account, which I am writing on currently. I have only one user account on my computer, it is the Admin account. I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me solve the issue.

I don't know if this is a virus, a Mountain Lion bug, or what. When I hit cancel, it cycles through these three prompts. To my great misfortune, it is not accepting my User (Admin) password.

Google Chrome wants to use the "login" keychain.

#Mac skype prompts for keychain password mac os x#

Mac OS X wants to use the "login" keychain.

Messages Agent wants to use the "login" keychain.

As soon as I log into my user/admin account, I'm assaulted by three Keychain prompts, one after the other:

The OS X Keychain keeps on popping up on my Mountain Lion Macbook.