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Messages Agent wants to sign in using key "" in your keychain. What do I do?

I've just upgraded to El Capitan on my iMac. It's downloaded and installed. The first message that popped up after I typed in my user password was this:


'Messages Agent wants to sign in using key "<key>" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item? Then it has the 'always allow' 'deny' and 'allow' options.


What do I do? I have no idea what this means.


Thanks.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Dec 5, 2015 6:34 AM

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Messages Agent wants to sign in using key "" in your keychain. What do I do?

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