How do I get my MacMini to stop asking for several inputs of keychain password every time I boot up? It started about a week ago with no reason. I saw where I am one among many who started experiencing this inconvenience aboput the same time as others.
What exactly do the prompts say?
The messages are all a little different. There are about 6. Two request the keychain password to enable a program to access "iCloud." The other 4 ask for the same accept that these programs need to access "local items" and ask for the keychain password to do so. Just to be clear, this phenomena is not related to Safari as far as I can tell. Also, this problem is not occurring on my MB Pro.
Please take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried, testing after each one. Back up all data before making any changes.
Step 1
Open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the Keychain box. You'll be prompted to delete the local iCloud keychain. Confirm. Then re-check the box. Follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set up iCloud Keychain on an additional device.
Step 2
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
~/Library/Keychains
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return. A folder named "Keychains" should open. There should be a file in that folder with the name "login.keychain". If there is also a file iwith the name "login_renamed_1.keychain", then please do as follows:
☞ Rename login.keychain to "login-old.keychain".
☞ Rename login_renamed_1.keychain to "login.keychain".
You can then close the folder.
Delete the login keychain from the keychain list in Keychain Access. Choose
Delete References
when prompted, not Delete References & Files.
Select
File ▹ Add Keychain...
from the menu bar. Add back the file now named "login.keychain". If any of your needed keychain items are missing from it, also add back the file now named "login-old.keychain". I suggest you transfer any needed items from that keychain to the login keychain, then delete it. The transfers are made by drag-and-drop in Keychain Access. You'll need to enter your password for each item transferred.
Quit Keychain Access.
Step 3
If you still have problems, uncheck the Keychain box again in the iCloud preference pane and continue.
Inside the Keychains folder that you opened in Step 2 is a subfolder with a long name similar to (but not the same as) this:
421DE5CA-D745-3AC1-91B0-CE5FC0ABA128
The above is only an example; yours will have a different name of the same general form. Drag the subfolder (not the Keychains folder) to the Trash and empty.
Restart the computer and re-enable iCloud Keychain.
Linc:
First... Thank you for the help.
It took all three steps to get rid of the problem.
I could not empty the trash until after restart, but that was not much of a problem.
For the record, here are the messages (at least part of each) that were plaguing me:
Again, thanks for your help. I was going nuts!
Steve C.
Reenter keychain password at startup
