keychain not working after El Capitan

I have also noticed that every time I wake up my MBP Retina it now requires me to re-enter my password for the WiFi network. How does such a major release pass QA at Apple without such basic tests as in-place upgrades? Truly boggles the mind. Anyway, I'll be wiping and re-installing Mavericks or Yosemite today, too many issues with this release and I have actual work to get done.

Same here. Having some trouble logging in to icloud account, and all my keychain powered logins lost.

Even the mail account passwords are gone!

Hope apple gets fix asap

I am having the same issues...

I have done all the above "fixes"

and it's around and around I go...

A fix needs to happen - this is getting a bit painful.

So my "solution" was to make a bootable Yosemite installer on USB stick, wipe and reinstall. EVERYTHING works now and I am a much happier customer.

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😠 Complete mess. At first i didn't dare to install El Capitan because of the Audio Units issues (daw).
Then 10.11.1 was released and now... complete mess😠

It seems that this issue is (at least for me) caused by the fix CVE-2015-5943 (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205375 at the bottom). If there is any active accessibility tool (see system settings, security, accessibility), the keychain prompt assumes the input is coming from an untrusted source and simply does not accept it (which can be seen in the logs). The same holds for remote connections via vnc://.

So i got this fixed. Took a while but reset your login keychain.

Go to "Keychain Access"

Got To the file menu and select "Preferences"

Select "Reset my Default Keychain"

It took care of it for me.

Thx, disabling all tools in (system settings, security, accessibility) solved the problem with Office 2016 🙂.

What exactly did you do to fix this problem? Everytime that I open a microsoft application (word, outlook, excel) it will not stop prompting for "allowing" access to my keychain. I cannot click always allow or even allow, so this is very frustrating.

Hi Alex,

I disabled everything on the Privacy tab below and everything started working again 🙂. I suspect Karabiner is causing the issue in my case.

Hope it works for you too.

The problem (in my case) concerns a new security feature for avoid the vulnerability CVE-2015-5943

And occurs that remote control soft (TeamViewer) are generating a 'synthetic click', so the keychain is not affected while you are clicking to allow codesig.

Josemaría

I seem to have stumbled upon a fix for this. First you need to go into system preferences, internet accounts, add another icloud account, delete your icloud account, add it again, then delete the alternate. It seems to have fixed the problem for me. Keychains and Icloud

In my case the problem was with MagicPrefs, a utility that lets you define additional mouse and trackpad gestures. Disabling MagicPrefs allows Keychain to see Allow/Allow All mouse clicks.

Mine appeared to be a combination of MagicPrefs and Karabiner. I hope MagicPrefs comes out with an updated version... I'm severely missing several of those gestures now.

I don't think this will be a simple fix for MagicPrefs, since it works by intercepting real events and resending them after processing gestures.

A simple workaround is to enable the menubar icon so you can easily enable/disable MagicPrefs. When something pops up a keychain dialog, disable MagicPrefs, click Allow, then enable it.