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"CalendarAgent wants to use your confidential information stored in "Exchange Access Group" in your keychain."

Since installing Mountain Lion I keep getting the message "CalendarAgent wants to use your confidential information stored in "Exchange Access Group" in your keychain." Even when I accept allow, it keeps prompting, let alone when I deny it. It is super-irritating. What happened?


I have cleaned my machine, and did disk repair from my Disk Utility. The problem still persists.


Advice, pls.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 3:56 PM

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Aug 1, 2012 6:14 AM in response to m. hannan

I have the same problem having just moved to Mountain Lion. I have had similar issue before when upgrading, I'm fairly sure its something in my private (locked) keychain that needs to be moved to my login keychain - thus avoiding the prompt as this keychain is by default unlocked.


The problem is that Mountain Lion seems to have put a dozen or so things in to my keychain, most of which arent easily identifiable and none of which makes any reference to Calendar Agent. I guess the easiest thing would be to switch them all to the login keychain and move them back one by one until the culprit is triggers the prompt again.

Aug 1, 2012 10:18 PM in response to m. hannan

I have had the same problem after upgrading my macs to mountain lion on two machines. The error-


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calendaragent wants to use your confidential infomation stored in "Exchange Access Group" in your keychain


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I went to my keychain and deleted everything. No more issues.


Am an advanced user but haven't ever really found much use for the Keychain feature. More trouble than anything.


Hope that helps.

Aug 2, 2012 11:10 AM in response to Flexrkr

That did it for me, although I don't have "Exchange Access Group" in my keychain it rang a bell. It turned out to be the details of a new exchange email account I recently added, once I moved them to the login keychain the prompts stopped.


I didn't use keychain until I got a laptop and subsequently paranoid about it getting nicked. I mainly use keychain for peace of mind with browser autofill. It allows me to make lots of different strong passwords but only have to remember one.


Thanks for the help Flexrkr.

Aug 25, 2012 6:23 PM in response to Flexrkr

*Flexrkr, this sounds a good option, but I opted for the Always Allow before I considered your option.

I checked my keychain and I saw a list of names/accesses. I was not sure what to delete, what not to delete or delete all. I therefore opted for Always Allow. May not be the best option though.


BTW, what is the function of the keychain?

Jan 18, 2013 8:00 AM in response to m. hannan

What a HUGE failure of Apple (yet again).


I just upgraded to 10.8 and am getting this error constantly. All my co-workers who upgraded to 10.8 are getting this popping up on their screens CONSTANTLY now:


"CalednarAgent wants to use your confidential information stored in 'www.google.com' in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?"


And no matter how many times you click DENY -- IT KEEPS POPPING BACK UP. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.



HUGE FAILURE of Apple here.


The only way I've found to stop this problem is to drop into shell, sudo su to become root, and chmod 000 the CalendarAgent binary, and then ps and kill -9 the CalendarAgent to MAKE IT STOP !!!

Mar 6, 2014 8:09 PM in response to m. hannan

Hi all



Mine seems to be a tad different.


I got some variations ie:


com.apple.iCloudHelper wants to use your confidentian information stored in <IP Address of our proxy server> (agrica\georgel) in your keychain.


and CalendarAgent wants to use your confidential information stored in <IP Address of our proxy server> <africa\georgel) in your keychin.


MY problem is the username listed it lists georgel and NOT georgele, notice the additional "e" at the end, ye ye that was me that entered it without the e, after I was told by IT thats my new login credentials, their fault, now my pain to resolve.


Hope someone can point me to where this information is stored so that I can go and correct the type,


I have already deleted the entire internet account and re-created it, did not help,

Any idea where this information is stored, as in actualy file, since I've search keychain for africa\georgel and found nothing.


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