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Q: keychain not working after El Capitan

Suddenly, my keychain (local) access is not work - it won't accept my keychain password to show other passwords. Fix? All in all El Capitan hasn't been very good. My other MacBook Pro's keyboard sound buttons don't function at all.

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), OS X El Capitan 10.11

Posted on Oct 11, 2015 10:28 AM

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  • by Ricardo A A,

    Ricardo A A Ricardo A A Oct 26, 2015 3:21 PM in response to fr33wh33lin
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    Oct 26, 2015 3:21 PM in response to fr33wh33lin

    Same here. Having some trouble logging in to icloud account, and all my keychain powered logins lost.

    Even the mail account passwords are gone!

    Hope apple gets fix asap

  • by Johnbot5k,

    Johnbot5k Johnbot5k Oct 27, 2015 11:28 AM in response to Walmo
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    Oct 27, 2015 11:28 AM in response to Walmo

    I am having the same issues...

    I have done all the above "fixes"

    and it's around and around I go...

    A fix needs to happen - this is getting a bit painful.

  • by fr33wh33lin,

    fr33wh33lin fr33wh33lin Nov 7, 2015 1:50 PM in response to Walmo
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    Nov 7, 2015 1:50 PM in response to Walmo

    So my "solution" was to make a bootable Yosemite installer on USB stick, wipe and reinstall.  EVERYTHING works now and I am a much happier customer. 

     

    <Edited by Host>

  • by Redibyx,

    Redibyx Redibyx Oct 28, 2015 5:36 AM in response to fr33wh33lin
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    Oct 28, 2015 5:36 AM in response to fr33wh33lin

    Complete mess. At first i didn't dare to install El Capitan because of the Audio Units issues (daw).
    Then 10.11.1 was released and now... complete mess

  • by Matthias Transier,Helpful

    Matthias Transier Matthias Transier Oct 29, 2015 2:25 AM in response to Walmo
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    Oct 29, 2015 2:25 AM in response to Walmo

    It seems that this issue is (at least for me) caused by the fix CVE-2015-5943 (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205375 at the bottom). If there is any active accessibility tool (see system settings, security, accessibility), the keychain prompt assumes the input is coming from an untrusted source and simply does not accept it (which can be seen in the logs). The same holds for remote connections via vnc://.

  • by Dcapp3,

    Dcapp3 Dcapp3 Oct 29, 2015 8:56 AM in response to Walmo
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    Oct 29, 2015 8:56 AM in response to Walmo

    So i got this fixed. Took a while but reset your login keychain.

     

    Go to "Keychain Access"

     

    Got To the file menu and select "Preferences"

     

    Select "Reset my Default Keychain"

     

    It took care of it for me.

  • by ejl888,

    ejl888 ejl888 Oct 30, 2015 3:26 AM in response to Matthias Transier
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    Oct 30, 2015 3:26 AM in response to Matthias Transier

    Thx, disabling all tools in (system settings, security, accessibility) solved the problem with Office 2016 .

  • by Alex_Mann,

    Alex_Mann Alex_Mann Oct 31, 2015 5:18 PM in response to ejl888
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    Oct 31, 2015 5:18 PM in response to ejl888

    What exactly did you do to fix this problem? Everytime that I open a microsoft application (word, outlook, excel) it will not stop prompting for "allowing" access to my keychain. I cannot click always allow or even allow, so this is very frustrating.

  • by ejl888,

    ejl888 ejl888 Nov 1, 2015 1:22 AM in response to Alex_Mann
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    Nov 1, 2015 1:22 AM in response to Alex_Mann

    Hi Alex,

     

    I disabled everything on the Privacy tab below and everything started working again . I suspect Karabiner is causing the issue in my case.

    Hope it works for you too.

    Screen Shot 2015-11-01 at 09.19.23.png

  • by josemaria_cr,

    josemaria_cr josemaria_cr Nov 2, 2015 9:18 AM in response to Walmo
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    Nov 2, 2015 9:18 AM in response to Walmo

    The problem (in my case) concerns a new security feature for avoid the vulnerability CVE-2015-5943

     

    And occurs that remote control soft (TeamViewer) are generating a 'synthetic click', so the keychain is not affected while you are clicking to allow codesig.

     

    Josemaría

  • by Timejudge,

    Timejudge Timejudge Nov 2, 2015 9:01 PM in response to Walmo
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    Nov 2, 2015 9:01 PM in response to Walmo

    I seem to have stumbled upon a fix for this. First you need to go into system preferences, internet accounts, add another icloud account, delete your icloud account, add it again, then delete the alternate. It seems to have fixed the problem for me. Keychains and Icloud

  • by finchr,Helpful

    finchr finchr Nov 6, 2015 10:04 AM in response to Matthias Transier
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    Nov 6, 2015 10:04 AM in response to Matthias Transier

    In my case the problem was with MagicPrefs, a utility that lets you define additional mouse and trackpad gestures.  Disabling MagicPrefs allows Keychain to see Allow/Allow All mouse clicks.

  • by sjpye,

    sjpye sjpye Nov 6, 2015 12:24 PM in response to finchr
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    Nov 6, 2015 12:24 PM in response to finchr

    Mine appeared to be a combination of MagicPrefs and Karabiner. I hope MagicPrefs comes out with an updated version... I'm severely missing several of those gestures now.

  • by finchr,

    finchr finchr Nov 6, 2015 1:16 PM in response to sjpye
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    Nov 6, 2015 1:16 PM in response to sjpye

    I don't think this will be a simple fix for MagicPrefs, since it works by intercepting real events and resending them after processing gestures.

     

    A simple workaround is to enable the menubar icon so you can easily enable/disable MagicPrefs.  When something pops up a keychain dialog, disable MagicPrefs, click Allow, then enable it.

  • by geolangston,

    geolangston geolangston Nov 7, 2015 3:28 PM in response to Walmo
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    Nov 7, 2015 3:28 PM in response to Walmo

    I had this same problem - could not view passwords in my personal keychain (of which there are many) - on an imac. The problem did not manifest on my macbook pro however.  This was after an update from Mavericks to El Capitan. After typing in password for the said keychain in order to view passwords for individual entries in the said keychain things would just lock up with spinning wheel. The only way out was to hard reset or, better yet enter "deny" in the dialog. As it turns out this was all due to the "magicprefs" mouse-enhancement software that I installed a while back in order to implement a middle mouse click (since I am a long-time unix/linux user).

     

    After trashing all the "magicprefs files", everything is back to normal, and I can live with native OSX workarounds. Still, I think the middle click of a 3-button mouse is invaluable. If you've ever had it you know what I'm talking about. Hopefully a future mac OS will make it possible.

    Hope this helps anyone else with this problem!

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