ChainGang01

Q: Guest User Prompting For Keychain Password--but I never set a Keychain password.  Renders guest account unusable due to incessant prompting.

I never set a password on the Guest account (can you even do that?) and nobody (to the best of my knowledge) ever set a keychain password.  Even if the Guest account users did set a Keychain password, none of the Guest account users know it.

 

How do I recover?

 

I have tried Keychain First Aid.

I have tried Repair Disk Permissions.

 

The endless prompts is effectively a denial of service attack on the guest user on my machine.  Messages, especially, prompts ad infinitum.

 

I'm not even sure why a "stateless" account like the Guest account has a keychain.  The warning at Guest logout about deleting all files every time you logout from the Guest account must not apply to the keychain.

 

Is there a "Delete User/Add User" sequence I can go through to get the Guest User Account Keychain squared away?

 

This problem may have appeared after I enabled iCloud keychain syncing on a non-Guest account.  Is that related to this?  Or just coincidence?

 

Any successful recovery paths suggestions appreciated.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), none

Posted on Dec 22, 2014 8:35 AM

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