Error message when adding account for TimeMachine

What functional problem do you have, if any? Log messages are not a problem in themselves.

This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.

Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

ls -@BOaen /L*/Keyc* | pbcopy

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

Launch the built-in Terminal application in any one of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.

Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.

The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.

The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

Certain files have a property incorrectly set that will prevent them from being changed or deleted while the system is running. That property can only be removed in Recovery mode.

1. Back up all data. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance. Don't skip this step.

2. Disconnect all external storage devices.

3. Start up in Recovery mode. Select a language, if prompted. The OS X Utilities screen will appear. One of the options is to install OS X. That's not what you're going to do.

4. This step is only necessary if you use FileVault 2. If you don't know what FileVault is, you're not using it. Go to the next step. Otherwise, launch Disk Utility, then select the icon of the FileVault volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) It will be nested below another drive icon. Select Unlock from the File menu and enter your login password when prompted. Then quit Disk Utility to be returned to the main screen.

5. Select Get Help Online. Safari will launch. While in Recovery, you'll have no access to your bookmarks, but you won't need them. Load this web page.

6. Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:

chflags norestricted /V*/*/L*/Keyc*/*

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

7. Quit Safari. You'll be returned to the OS X Utilities screen.

From the menu bar, select

Utilities ▹ Terminal

The Terminal application will launch. Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V.

Wait for a new line ending in a hash sign (#) to appear. Quit Terminal to be returned to the main screen.

8. Select

 ▹ Restart

from the menu bar.

I'd just like to add that I had this same issue, and your fix of turning off the restricted flag in Recovery mode worked, but for me the issue was showing up in a different way. I was trying to add a wi-fi password and it was never remembering it. I'd see log messages like the following in the console logs:

airportd(61) System Policy: deny file-write-unlink /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

if you see messages like this, then from a terminal, type

ls -Bn /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

and if the output includes the word 'restricted', then you need to follow the instructions from Linc above (Re: Error message when adding account for TimeMachine) to go to recovery mode and remove the 'restricted' flag from that file.