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How to stop "Messages Agent wants to use the 'login' keychain. Please enter the keychain password" from occurring every time I turn my computer back on?

After I log into my computer, a popup always appears that says: "Messages Agent wants to use the 'login' keychain. Please enter the keychain password" and I have to enter it everytime before I start using my computer. I never use Messages ever, so its perplexing to me why this keeps appearing. Why does this happen and how do I stop it from popping up every single time I sign into my user.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Jan 4, 2014 10:25 AM

17 replies

Jun 12, 2016 9:36 PM in response to jbranch018

If you are like me and had local keychain freeze up when you tried to lock/unlock it then here is what support chat did to solve it.

Open Finder

Hold Option and click library from the Go drop down menu

Scroll until you find a folder named Keychains

Inside, I had a file called breadcrumbIdentifier, login.keychain, metadata.keychain, and F10B33C8-1D9B-425D-B4E2-39999817E636 (you might have a different sequence of letters and numbers

I also had a folder named 83F8CDA3-63E7-54BE-85EB-8AC69D8F0BA9 (again you might have different)

I selected the long named file and long named folder followed by right click followed by New Folder With Seletion (2 items)

Restart and good to go.

hiqued

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Oct 7, 2017 7:11 AM in response to jbranch018

Quick fix:

- change your keychain password

- change your login password

- make sure they are the same.

How to stop "Messages Agent wants to use the 'login' keychain. Please enter the keychain password" from occurring every time I turn my computer back on?