node wants to use the "Local Items" keychain

Nothing the OP reported suggested that it isn't malware either! Node is a very popular Javascript library used in a lot of software—particularly web frameworks, and it certainly can be used maliciously. As another poster suggested, typing "ps aux | grep node" into Terminal can show you where it might be in use on your system; in my case both Slack and Creative Cloud are.

Deleting the contents of your keychain is like trying to remove a splinter with a chainsaw. I don't recommend that approach, but you should definitely track down the source before you blindly give Node high level access to your system.

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Nothing that you have reported suggests malware.

I've been getting it, too. On a few other forums I read that it is caused by Adobe Creative Cloud. Makes sense for me, I have it installed.

Mac sales are 13% down year-on-year because of terrible support like this. And don't bother saying you're "not Apple support", this is an Apple website and you're supposedly some Level 10 ninja so if they're not paying you then whoever is should fire you because you spend all your time here. You could have explained what this message means and why it's not a problem and how to stop getting it. MacOS and Apple support used to be years ahead of Microsoft/Windows and now it's years behind. I'm typing this on my 7th and last Apple computer. I paid a lot of money for an absolute top of the line MacBook Pro and it has been anything but a premium experience.

So OK its fine its part of Creative Cloud, but HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP?!?!

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Couldn't agree more. It's tougher and tougher to find answers to bugs and oddities. Adobe is even worse. This decision to use the term "Node" rather than "Adobe" is confusing. And Apple's decision to not provide more info about who/what is requiring a keychain password.

After dropping 3k on a base model MacBook Pro, I couldn't afford another $300 - $400 on Apple Care. So I rely on forums like this for answers. Apple, just like Adobe, fail to answer a lot of questions. Is it really that difficult for the 2nd wealthiest company in the world to pay a few people to answer questions in forums?

Someone said we can fix it by doing this (I am about to try it):

1.) Go to Finder

2.) Select the “Go” panel

3.) Hold down “Option” and Library will popup. (This takes you to your temp files I believe.)

4.) Find Keychain and delete everything in the folder. NOT the Keychain folder itself, but the files in it.

Thanks for completely ignoring the problem and marking this question as answered. This is clearly still an issue for everyone who has posted and likely many many more. How do we get these thousands of little passwords to go away??

I keep getting this message as well -- it's okay to type in the password? What is Node?

Which password though? I enter my admin password and it does not accept it???

i keep getting this message say that node wants your keychain login and i know its not malware but it asks me every time i use an adobe product and its getting annoying what do i do?

See my post above. I have allowed it a month ago and nothing broke, no evil things (at least no visible ones) happened.

Bit late now, I guess you figured out that it's your login password.

Have the same occurrence here, it's Adobe using Node.js® which is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. So it's Ok I presume. https://nodejs.org/en/

Do you happen to have Videostream installed?

I got this too, and I ran "ps aux | grep node" from the terminal and I saw that there was a program called "node" running inside Videostream.app, so I think that's likely who's asking for it. I still don't know why it would need keychain access. I doubt it's malware, but I can't really vouch for it.