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Safari keeps asking for Keychain Access

Everytime I use Safari after some time it asks for Keychain access. I disabled the autofill forms feature already, but it does not stop asking. Does anybody know how to keep Safari from doing this without disabling the password protection of my keychain?

Honestly said, this erraneous behaviour keeps me from using Safari as Firefox does not make such strange attempts to use Keychain.

mac book pro 2.5 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jun 28, 2009 3:43 AM

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Hawaiian_Starman

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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 8:57 AM

Hi

Try this:

Open Keychain Access.app in your Utilities folder. Highlight one of familiar keychain entries on the right side or type a familiar name in the spotlight panel. Then double click the entry. When the panel opens, select "Access Control".

In the "Always allow access" panel, click on the +, then navigate to Safari in your Applications folder. Save changes.

Just for good measure, go to the Keychains Menu>Keychain First-Aid and select "repair". If any errors appear, rerun until you get a clean pass.

Close Keychain Access and restart Safari.

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Aug 1, 2009 3:27 PM in response to tomasio

These last two suggestions did not resolve the issue, which is a drag. It's exclusively happening when I sign in to Gmail for some reason. Any other suggestions?

Aug 8, 2009 10:58 AM in response to Robbydmac

I have the same issue and discovered the cause of the problem in my computer: I have a Caldav configuration on iCal for my google calendar, and it was included at Keychain. The problem is Safari is trying to read information from this - and there are no way do deny it completely from asking the key chain access. If I remove the Caldav configuration, Safari doesn't ask for key chain access.

tomasio Author

Level 1

30 points

Aug 11, 2009 8:09 AM in response to tomasio

I want to re-focus the thread on its original theme: Although I have no Google App configured with iCal I still get dose annoying keychain alerts while using Safari. Does noone here has a clue what is the reason? Is it filed as a bug? If not, how can I do this myself?

Pai Mei

Level 1

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Aug 12, 2009 4:23 PM in response to tomasio

PROBLEM SOLVED

1. Go to your Spotlight and type in "Keychain Access" (select Keychain Access)
2. Keychain Access>Preferences>"Reset My Keychain" option

Safari should work normally after this.

KevinVT

Level 1

14 points

Aug 15, 2009 8:42 AM in response to Pai Mei

THANK YOU!
I seem to have this problem every time there's an update, which is too often, and Safari would ask for keychains then get the rainbow ball / not responding.

Though the first time I tried Reset my Keychain it told me it couldn't because "another error occurred" -- the second time it worked!

Aug 15, 2009 3:01 PM in response to Pai Mei

This doesn't work. After having done it the Safari Browser generated errors and closed spontaneously. I had to install Safari again and even that didn't solve the problem, it still quit if configured with a proxy keychain. I had to revert Safari to the default settings and then configure again. Once Safari has become again stable however, it still keeps asking for the Username and Password regardless of how the Keychain Access has been set. Sometimes the preferences in Keychain Access are again changed (it really seems a bug, it does so without receiving the order), but sometimes it has not been changed but Safari still asks for the Username and Password.
If actually it is a bug in the system I'm rather pessimistic about getting it fixed in a relative short period of time. How many users usually need to use a proxy registration password to access the Internet? I even considering to modify the preferences every time I need the access through the proxy and then revert to unregistered access to avoid such constant nuisances.

tomasio Author

Level 1

30 points

Aug 16, 2009 1:18 AM in response to Pai Mei

Dear Pai Mei,

although your suggestion may have worked for you: The problem is NOT SOLVED!

After resetting my keychain (I got three of them: "System", "login", and "tomasio" - the latter contains my passwords), Safari keeps asking for keychain access as before. Only when I unblock my keychain, the keychain-popups stop. So I think this has to do sth. with my tomasio-keychain. I will try to disable it and see if the error still occurs.

Ambroeus

Level 1

8 points

Aug 16, 2009 3:10 AM in response to tomasio

I am not sure whether my problem is the same, but it seems to be related. Three days ago, I accepted an update, to Safari 4.0.3. Since then, every time I have opened Safari I have been asked the same question: do I want to change my passwords and keychain? Clicking "Do not change" does not seem to be sufficient to prevent the question reappearing next time. Any suggestions, allowing for the fact that I am a complete dunce?

Oct 8, 2009 9:32 AM in response to Ale Marcelo

I have this same issue. Surely Safari should not be accessing an iCal password, and yet that is what's happening. Bug in Aple?

Safari keeps asking for Keychain Access