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Q: Mavericks Keychain keeps asking to unlock "Local Items" after install

Today I Updated my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.

 

After Installing the first boot went smooth but the mac after booting asked me to reboot again.

 

On the second Restart when the login window appeared also apeared a Password input window asking me to enter the password for several "LOCAL ITEMS" in the keychain but when I type my administrator password it won't work.

 

I hit the ESC key and the window appears several times asking for different password for several items that need access to "Local Items" in the keychain.

 

I tried opening the KeyChain and running the KeyChain firstaid but it didn't work.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 4:51 PM

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Q: Mavericks Keychain keeps asking to unlock "Local Items" after install

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  • by Npalamidis,Solvedanswer

    Npalamidis Npalamidis Oct 22, 2013 5:26 PM in response to Npalamidis
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    Oct 22, 2013 5:26 PM in response to Npalamidis

    I solved this issue by doing the following steps:

     

    1.- Opening KeyChain app

    2.- Locking the Keychain by clicking the lock on the top left corner.

    3. -Unlocking the Keychain, as soon as I typed my Admin Passoword it asked me to "Reset my iCloud KeyChain" I clicked yes because I didn't have setup my icloud keychain yet.

    4.- Restart computer.

     

    After performing this steps the computer restarted flawlessly and without asking for the "Local Items" password.

  • by Benyi90,

    Benyi90 Benyi90 Oct 23, 2013 3:51 PM in response to Npalamidis
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    Oct 23, 2013 3:51 PM in response to Npalamidis

    It's not working for me. My Local Items Keychain is already locked and I cannot unlock. It keeps asking me for that password. Any idea?

  • by shellcode,

    shellcode shellcode Oct 23, 2013 4:26 PM in response to Benyi90
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    Oct 23, 2013 4:26 PM in response to Benyi90

    When you open Keychain Access (KeyChain app) application in order to get presented with the "reset" option you need to lock and unlock the "login" keychain.  Highlight the "login" keychain under the keychains menu and click the lock to lock and then while you still have the "login" keychain selected click the lock to unlock.  After you authenticate to the login keychain it will present you with a dialog to reset your "Local items or iCloud keychain".

  • by Benyi90,

    Benyi90 Benyi90 Oct 23, 2013 4:31 PM in response to shellcode
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    Oct 23, 2013 4:31 PM in response to shellcode

    Noup, I tried to do that before, tried once again. Dialog for reseting Local items keychain doesn't show up.

  • by Pacote-san,

    Pacote-san Pacote-san Oct 24, 2013 6:03 AM in response to Npalamidis
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    Oct 24, 2013 6:03 AM in response to Npalamidis

    For those having issue with keychain asking for "Local Items" every time after upgrading to Mavericks, and not being able to unlock the keychain lock (asks again for the same unknown password)

     

    Don't even try to repair (it will not work) or Reset my Default Keychain (it will ask for the password).

     

    Fixes:

     

     

    • Did not try that yet but should work. Go to ~/Library/Keychain  and move all files to the trash.  Reboot your mac and keychain should give you a message of error, just click to create new keychain.


    • What i did and worked fine. Create a new user and log in with it. Go to~/Library/Keychain and copy all content to a USB Drive or even to /Users/Shared.  Log back to your old user (that is getting those annoying keychain password messages) and copy all the content you just backed up to the keychain folder. Reboot and when you get the message, choose create new keychain.

    All done

  • by shellcode,

    shellcode shellcode Oct 24, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Pacote-san
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    Oct 24, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Pacote-san

     

    • Did not try that yet but should work. Go to ~/Library/Keychain  and move all files to the trash.  Reboot your mac and keychain should give you a message of error, just click to create new keychain.

     

    • What i did and worked fine. Create a new user and log in with it. Go to~/Library/Keychain and copy all content to a USB Drive or even to /Users/Shared.  Log back to your old user (that is getting those annoying keychain password messages) and copy all the content you just backed up to the keychain folder. Reboot and when you get the message, choose create new keychain.

     

    This is bad advice.  You don't want to delete everything in ~/Library/Keychains as that will remove everything from your keychain that you saved.

  • by Pacote-san,

    Pacote-san Pacote-san Oct 24, 2013 8:34 AM in response to shellcode
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    Oct 24, 2013 8:34 AM in response to shellcode

    There is NO WAY to get any info on that keychain cause its locked by unknown password (there is a lot of users with this problem since mavericks upgrade)

     

    And you can always get the items back on the trash (unusable cause you dont have the password)

  • by shellcode,Helpful

    shellcode shellcode Oct 24, 2013 8:52 AM in response to Pacote-san
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    Oct 24, 2013 8:52 AM in response to Pacote-san

    Your login.keychain password is out of sync with the new iCloud keychain and needs to be re-sync'd.

     

    The new iCloud keychain is either called "Local items" if you don't have syncing enabled or "iCloud" if you enabled iCloud keychain sync.

     

    1. Open 'Keychain Access' Application
    2. Select the 'login' keychain from the keychains list
    3. Click the lock at the top to lock the login keychain
    4. Click the lock again to unlock the login keychainunlock.png
    5. After entering your login keychain password you should be presented with a dialog:reset.password.png
    6. Clicking the reset button will re-sync your login.keychain password with the iCloud keychain password.

     

    If everything from the above fails for whatever reason the last resort you can do the following:

    1. Open terminal
    2. cd ~/Library/Keychains
    3. ls  
      1. When you 'ls' here you will see a folder that contains a bunch of random number liks so:
      2. 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464  (this number is unique on each system)
    4. rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
    5. Reboot
    6. <when you log back in everything should be back to normal>
  • by Pacote-san,

    Pacote-san Pacote-san Oct 24, 2013 8:59 AM in response to shellcode
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    Oct 24, 2013 8:59 AM in response to shellcode

    The issue everyone is having have nothing to do with icloud. People with the issue (that i posted the fix for) the lock appear as LOCKED and when you click it just shows to enter LOCAL ITEMS password, no way to reset or ANYTHING

     

    Icloud is not even enabled on the machine of the user i helped a while ago...

     

    The unlock lock issue is for people with icloud enabled and keychain out of sync, not the other way around

  • by vanpola,

    vanpola vanpola Oct 24, 2013 10:09 AM in response to Npalamidis
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    Oct 24, 2013 10:09 AM in response to Npalamidis

    Same problem here.

    I tried to reset it like a thousand times.

    Local items is still locked, it was from the very beginning.

  • by roach2012joe,

    roach2012joe roach2012joe Oct 24, 2013 12:23 PM in response to shellcode
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    Oct 24, 2013 12:23 PM in response to shellcode

    Hi Shellcode,

    My MBP keeps freezing/resetting on step 4 as soon as i click in to the box where i would type my password.

    Any help would be awesome

  • by shellcode,

    shellcode shellcode Oct 24, 2013 12:45 PM in response to roach2012joe
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    Oct 24, 2013 12:45 PM in response to roach2012joe

    You might need follow the last resort steps. 1-6 at the bottom from terminal.

  • by roach2012joe,

    roach2012joe roach2012joe Oct 24, 2013 3:20 PM in response to shellcode
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    Oct 24, 2013 3:20 PM in response to shellcode

    Sorry, every time i open the terminal i have the same reset.

    Although it seems to freeze up as soon as i enter any text input screen (terminal, notes, password, etc)

  • by roach2012joe,

    roach2012joe roach2012joe Oct 24, 2013 3:49 PM in response to roach2012joe
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    Oct 24, 2013 3:49 PM in response to roach2012joe

    Lol, even typing comments on the apple error report, Dang.

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