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After starting up my newer iMac it's asking for for the login keychain password for several applications. It is stuck in a cycle that I can't cancel out of. Any suggestions?

dwightk

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It sounds as an issue either with the Keychain App. Try repairing it. To do so just:

1. Locate the Keychain Access application, under /Applications/Utilities.
2. Choose Keychain Access > Keychain First Aid.
3. Enter your User name and Password.
4. Select Verify and click Start.
5. If any problems were found, select Repair and click Start again.

It could be, too, that you've changed your account password without using the Accounts Preferences pane. If that is the case, for your default keychain to be unlocked automatically when logged in, you'll have to Synchronize your Keychain Access and login passwords. To do so just:

1. Open Keychain Access.
2. From the Edit menu, choose Change Password for Keychain 'login.'
3. Type the former password of the account that you are currently logged in to, then click OK.
4. If you entered the correct password, a new window appears; enter the original password again in the Current Password field.
5. In the New Password field, type the password that matches your current account password.
6. Re-enter the newer password in the Verify field, then click OK.

This is needed because, as Apple explains it:

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If you change your account's password using your Mac OS X Install disc (or if your network-based account password is changed due to a network admin forcing a password change), your default keychain password (which uses the same initial password as your user account) does not change. Because of this, you will be prompted to enter a keychain password each time an application requires authentication that your keychain would normally provide.

ThecafremoThecafremo

I had the same problem. It has bothered me for several weeks on my new Mac. It should be caused by changing Mac password using 3rd party software. On macOS El Capitan and Sierra, there is no Keychain Access > Keychain First Aid. Changing login keychain's password does not help. To solve this problem, you have to reset your default keychain.

Please note: you'll lose all your passwords stored in it.

1. Open Keychain Access, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
2. Choose Preferences from the Keychain Access menu (or Cmd,), then click the Reset My Default Keychain button in the preferences window. After you enter your new password (same to the password of your Mac account), Keychain Access creates an empty login keychain with no password. Click OK to confirm. (If you don't see a Reset My Default keychain button, close the preferences window and select the “login” keychain from the left side of the Keychain Access window. Press the Delete key, then click Delete References.)
3. Choose Log Out from the Apple menu to return to the login screen.
4. Log in to your account. Your account password and login keychain password now match.

nohillside♦

The keychain by default locks after some time of inactivity and the computer sleeps.

You can disable this behaviour on the keychain settings:

1. Select the keychain
2. Edit / Right click
3. Change Settings for Keychain 'login'
4. Uncheck 'Lock after 5 minutes of inactivity' and 'Lock when sleeping' options

nohillside♦

You have 2 Options:

One is to just open the keychain at log in and leave it open - this is not recommended

2- open keychain find the application(s) in question and give them access

see example

you have to select the Allow all applications to access this item

RuskesRuskes

There is a bug that is affecting some users which is related to this. You may see the colour wheel of death when you get the certificate trust prompt from some applications, like Microsoft Remove Desktop of Microsoft Office (weird but it happened only with these to me!)

Once you see the colour wheel, your only change is to reboot and after this you will get several prompts for keychain password BUT you would have to type your old password even if you previously reconfigured Keychain Access to use the same password.

sorinsorin

You need to create a new keychain if admin has changed your password.

Per a deleted Apple Support article:

The keychain password is available only to the user and not the administrator. If the login password is reset by the administrator, the keychain password is not changed. The user is asked to reset the keychain password during the next login. If the login password was reset because the user forgot the old password, the keys, passwords, and other information in the keychain won’t be accessible, and the user will need to create a new keychain.

Also here and here.

PacerierPacerier

I came across this same issue on El Capitan, and had already searched and tried all suggestions on here.

My solution was to disable FileVault under System Settings > Security & Privacy and everything works fine again.

Update:

Before you downvote because you can't understand how someone can disable the default FileVault encryption: I don't see the downside of disabling FileVault. For really sensitive data, other tools such as Symantec Drive Encryption / PGP or TrueCrypt can be used. At least it doesn't get in the way like FileVault does with the system keychain.

As mentioned in the comments, I had searched on SO for this questions and found several answers, of which none worked for me. Therefore disabling FileVault (and switching to another, independent encryption tool for the data you want or need encrypted) is a viable option.

Advantages vs disadvantages with using file vault.

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In OS X you should be able to create and manipulate files on your system largely without being burdened to authenticate, especially if the files are within resources your account owns such as your home folder. However, after upgrading or otherwise performing changes to the system you may find that the system continually prompts you for a password when you try to manage your files.

Sometimes this issue may occur only when you perform certain tasks such as deleting files (as opposed to placing them in the trash), but at other times it may happen on any manipulation.

OS X is generally split into three access permissions tiers. The first is the user-level access, which are files that you have full access to, regardless of where they are. This is usually just the user's home folder and the files located within it. The second is the admin-level access, which include system files that administrators can freely access without needing to authenticate. Such areas include the global Library folder and the Applications folder (both at the root of the hard drive). The third tier are those that require root-level access, for which even administrators will need to authenticate or possibly will have to switch to running as the root user in order to manage. These include files in the /System folder, and some hidden resources such as the accounts database.

For any of these resources, the default permissions setups that establish these access requirements can be changed. While such changes can result in more open access to resources for accounts that by default don't have access, changes to them can also result in a more restricted environment. If this happens and the management of files that you previously were able to perform without authentication now requires it, then there are some things you can do.

1. Fix permissions on the system
   Most of the root- and admin-level resources on the system are central resources that were installed either by the OS X installer or by a third-party installer. For the most part, along with their installation these resources include a receipt file that is stored in the system, and which contains information about what files were installed and where. In addition, this receipt contains the default permissions setup for each of these files. The system can access this to reset the permissions to their default settings and thereby clear any changes that may currently be preventing access.
   To do this, open the Disk Utility program and then select your boot drive, followed by clicking the 'Verify Disk Permissions' button to check for any errors, or the 'Repair' button to fix these errors.
2. Reset account permissions
   The Disk Utility permissions fixing routines will only target files for which there is an associated receipt. This includes most system resources but does not include any resources in the user's home folder or any others that a user has explicitly created. To tackle permissions access errors for files in the home folder, you will need to use a separate utility on the OS X installation drive. Reboot the system to the OS X installer (insert the disc and hold the 'C' key, or hold Command-R at start-up for OS X 10.7 or later). Then choose your language and at the installer window choose 'Reset Password' from the Utilities menu. If this option is not in this menu (OS X 10.7 or later), then choose the 'Terminal' option and enter the command 'resetpassword' to launch this utility.
   In the utility, choose your boot drive, then choose your user account from the drop-down menu, followed by clicking the 'Reset' button in the 'Reset home directory permissions and ACLs' section at the bottom of the window. If files in the user account are still not accessible after this step, then open the Terminal utility and run the following command to remove ACLs. Then reboot to the OS X installer and try resetting account permissions again:
   

   sudo chmod -RN ~

3. Check your user account
   While rare, sometimes after upgrading or performing other similar changes to the system, your user account may no longer be a member of the administrator group, which will result in you requiring far more authentication than before your changes. Therefore, be sure to check your account's status in the Users & Groups (or 'Accounts') system preferences to see if it is a standard user or an administrator.
   Your system ought to have at least one administrative user account, which you can use to promote or demote others to administrative levels, but if you have no administrative account then you can quickly restore one and be up and running again.
4. Ignore permissions on external volumes
   Most of the time external hard drives are treated as permission-less storage spaces so you can access any file on them from any account on the system. However, this setting can be reverted on a per-drive basis. If you are finding the system is requesting you authenticate to access files on your external storage drive, it is likely that the drive's permissions are now being observed. While you can make permissions adjustments to the drive to ensure all users have access, one quick way to revert to the normal behavior is to get information on the drive and click the checkbox to ignore permissions on it.
   Keep in mind, this setting is available only for secondary storage volumes, which include external drives and built-in secondary partitions and hard drives, but will not include the boot drive.
5. Clear and rebuild the trash.
   A final area where permissions settings can be a problem is when deleting files. For all locally attached volumes (USB, FireWire, and Thunderbolt drives included), when you delete files the system will initially store them in the OS X Trash, and then delete them fully when you empty the trash. To implement this behavior, OS X creates hidden folders in the user account and at the root of all volumes of locally attached drives to hold trashed files; however, if the system cannot create or access these hidden folders, it will prompt you to immediately delete the files.
   If you are experiencing this issue, you can usually fix the problem by removing the hidden trash folders on the system. To do this, open the Terminal utility and run the following commands to remove the hidden Trash folder in your user account (be absolutely sure there are no spaces following the slash in this command):
   

   sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
   sudo rm -rf /.Trashes

   
   If you have run the commands above, then run the following command to clear the administrative timeout and require a password again (this is just a precautionary step):
   

   sudo -K

   
   Following this, you will need to specifically target the .Trashes folders on external and secondary hard drives for removal by typing 'sudo rm -rf' in the Terminal followed by a single space. Then drag the secondary volume to the Terminal window to complete the full path to it. (Do not press enter at this time. If you do and are prompted for a password, then press Control-C to cancel and re-type the command).
   With the secondary volume's path entered in the Terminal, press the delete key once to remove the trailing space, then type '/.Trashes' so the command looks like the following:
   

   sudo rm -rf /Volumes/MyDriveName/.Trashes

   
   With the command formatted like this, press enter followed by supplying your password to remove the targeted 'Trashes' folder. Repeat this procedure for all attached hard drives. Once this is completed, the next time you delete a file from these drives the system will recreate these folders and store the files in them so they appear in the Trash in the OS X Dock.

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