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Q: Keychain reset does not work

Can't reset my keychain. Just upgraded to Mavericks, had to restart for an iTunes update and everything went downhill from there.

dozens of applications ask for access to 'local items', my user password doesn't work and i tried a few other passwords that it might have been, but i know i used my user password before installing mavericks, but that's not working.

Went online to try to find answers, got pointed to the 'reset my default keychain', clicked it and the program asked for the password for 'local items' keychain, tried my user password again, didn't work. The 'Login' keychain is now gone completely, it disappeared. Clicking 'reset my default keychain' brings the popup 'specified keychain could not be found', so that won't work anymore.

Looked for some more answers, one pointed to deleting the keychain entirely, which i tried but the option to delete 'local items' is greyed out.

Attempted keychain first aid, it asks for a password to access 'local items'. after trying my user password again, it didn't work. now the first aid displays an error message every time i attempt a repair. here's the text from my latest attempt:

 

Repair started

Checking keychain configuration for yousefshohayeb (user ID=501)

Home directory is /Users/yousefshohayeb

Checked login keychain

Error: login keychain not found

Created a new empty “login” keychain.

Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

Checked settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

Settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain may cause the keychain to be locked

Current values: lockOnSleep=yes, autoLock=5 mins

Unable to change keychain settings (-128)

Checked default keychain

Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

Warning: some problems were not fixed

Repair failed

 


after that, i restarted my computer, when i put my username to login to my account, i got asked to provide the keychain password for 'local items'. This happened while i was logging in and the computer refused to log into the account until i pressed the 'cancel' button.

 

Nothing is working, what do i do?

 

As a side note, i either want to unlock the 'local items' keychain or i want to stop messages from popping up, which i attempted and again hit the 'local items' password wall. I also can't check 'allow user to reset password using Apple ID' because the option is greyed out even after unlocking it to change items.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 1:32 AM

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  • by 5pln709,

    5pln709 5pln709 May 31, 2014 10:19 PM in response to shellcode
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    May 31, 2014 10:19 PM in response to shellcode

    AHHH! Your so awesome! This honestly fix my problem. I did various troubleshootings to fix the keychain and none work but yours was. Thanks so much.

     

    ===========================CREDIT TO SHELLCODE=======================================

    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 irvigw,

    irvigw irvigw Aug 14, 2014 11:40 AM in response to Pacote-san
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    Aug 14, 2014 11:40 AM in response to Pacote-san

    Deleting the keychains from the Library directory worked for my purposes. Restart was necessary.

     

    Thanks!

  • by Axe.Lee.iTunes,

    Axe.Lee.iTunes Axe.Lee.iTunes Oct 20, 2014 7:05 AM in response to Castlemanic
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    Oct 20, 2014 7:05 AM in response to Castlemanic

    I had to also manually delete the keychain folder through Terminal.

     

    A few important details to note:

     

    1.  Directory names are case-sensitive.  At first, I deleted a keychain in /libraries/keychains.  This did not solve my issue, because the unique keychain was actually in /Libraries/Keychains.  I do not know why Apple uses foldernames with lowercase letters, but it did send me down the wrong path for a few minutes.

     

    2.  Because of security on this Macbook, I had to sudo rm -rf <keychain directory name>

     

    After rebooting, the prompts for a "login" keychain password went away and it accepted my updated password for the login keychain (verified through the Keychain Access applet).

     

    Thanks!

  • by Chris_W@C1,

    Chris_W@C1 Chris_W@C1 Apr 23, 2015 6:59 AM in response to shellcode
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    Apr 23, 2015 6:59 AM in response to shellcode

    I have used this trick before but now I am seeing people without the folder to delete and they still have the prompts for "local items" login.  It happens to be the previous password so they are able to enter it.  Also they can't get to the Update password field on the local items preferences as that option is greyed out.

     

    Any ideas?

     

    Thanks,

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