Should I Reset Keychain to Defaults When I'm Logged on Guest User?

Hi, advanced Merry Christmas. As guest and relatives are arriving for Christmas eve, I've logged on to Guest User but should I reset keychain (it appears on Safari) to default or should I cancel? If I reset, will it actually reset my admin account's keychain?
Thank you in advance.
God bless. Rev. 21:4

Can you provide more details? You have formulated a question which appears to assume some behavior you see is normal and everyone would understand.
I'm not sure how you would reset the keychain in the guest user, or why up you'd want to. When you log out of Guest, it completely erases the user information, including the keychain, if that is even used.
If it is asking you to do that, can you post a screenshot of the dialog box?
there was another post recently about Guest requesting a keychain password, so there may be some obscure problem with the Guest account.

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