How do I disable Keychain

Go ahead trash it and see what happens. Be my guest.

/usr/sbin/systemkeychain

/System/Library/SyncServices/AutoRegistration/Schemas/com.apple.Keychain.syncsch ema

/System/Library/SyncServices/AutoRegistration/Clients/com.apple.Keychain

/Users/yourusername/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

/Library/Keychains/System.keychain

/System/Library/Keychains/SystemCACertificates.keychain

/System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain

/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keychainaccess.plist

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.systemkeychain.plist

/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityInterface.framework/Versions/A/Resources/zh_T W.lproj/KeychainSettingsPanel.nib (and many more where these are.)

/Library/Keychains

/System/Library/Keychains

/Users/yourusername/Library/Keychains

You don't want to do that. Besides being the location for passwords, Keychain stores numerous certificates, which are needed to verify the authenticity of secure (https/SSL) connections.

I am very confused here. If they do not know their password.... then how are they getting e-mail?

HorsewareIT wrote:

So how can I stop the Key chain from popping up?

That's not the issue. It seems to me something in your system is not properly configured. Start here

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3915>

<http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1532>

HTH

I hate the keychain. I use google chrome to store my passwords and I don't care who can acess it or how much better other people think the keychain is. I want to disable it. It defeats the purpose of storing passwords if you have to enter a stupid password everytime you use a stored one. So can someone tell me how to disable the keychain please?

Hi,

don't know if you have solved this problem alreday. I also think this keychain is a very bad thing for a professional environment as it' s just not thought to the end. The thing is you have to teach your users changing their passwords only using a Mac and only then in the system preferences / users part. This is for my knowledge the only place Mac OS X tries to keep those passwords in sync. Also whey your users use more than one Mac or logging in to other machines I made the best experience in setting up mobile accounts and sync the whole folder ~/Library/Keychains between the machines. This makes sure that when you cange the account password on one Mac the keychain will replicate to all other machines you logon and so the password of the account and the keychain fits again. Works ok for me. Anyway my keychain has Alzheimer and I have to type randomly passwords once in a while. Especially Messages and FaceTime passwords are a horror.

Hope it helps.

Cheers

R

I'm having a similar problem. I tried this: http://www.ehow.com/how_8678285_disable-keychain-mac.html

And that got rid of the majority of the pop-ups, but it's still doing it. I have to click "cancel" on the pop-ups 3 times each time it pops up, which is frequently. In order to reset my password for this site so that I could post to this discussion I has to enter 2 characters into the box, click "cancel" on the pop-up 3X, enter 2 more characters, click cancel 3 more times... etc. for both the new password and the confirmation. It also wouldn't let me use the password I wanted to, which is why I couldn't remember what it was in the first place, it keeps making me change it to something new. Aside from keeping passwords on a post it note on the computer, which would defeat the purpose, I don't know how to get around this.

...and I used to prefer macs because they were more user friendly. I've been having trouble with tabs in safari not closing when I click on the "X", and other little stuff for a long time too. In the last year or so I'm starting to think that as long as I have to put up with this kind of buggy stuff I might as well do it on a PC for half the price.

Hello you can reset the users keychain by deleting the keychain preferences in Users/Library/Keychains then deleted the contents of that folder log out and and log back in and the keychain password will reset to the users current password hope this helps

WildinPunk, that was a great tip, worked perfectly to put to death in 10 seconds the incessant password prompts that were driving my daughter crazy on her account. You are our hero of the day!

What I did is: Went into Keychain Access and I went to the login tab, I right clicked it and it said delete. I thought it was pretty self explanitory that it would stop it from popping up while logging into something, and it worked. So it hasn't popped up with a keychain since I did this.

However, if one does that, they lose all their saved keychains and passwords.

Why does Apple not offer a tool to automatically sync the login password with the keychain password when Active Directoy needs to be used? Maybe add a button "Sync with AD" in the user account area?

Or add a feature to the keychain to sync the keychain password with the AD server password?