How do I disable Keychain

For our users Keychain is a nightmare - especially because they do not remember the first password - as the network enforces them to change it every 90 days. With this the keychain pop keeps coming up constantly and is affecting the users working. So I would like to know how to stop keychain or to disable it?

I'm having a similar problem.  I tried this:  http://www.ehow.com/how_8678285_disable-keychain-mac.html
And that got rid of the majority of the pop-ups, but it's still doing it.  I have to click "cancel" on the pop-ups 3 times each time it pops up, which is frequently.  In order to reset my password for this site so that I could post to this discussion I has to enter 2 characters into the box, click "cancel" on the pop-up 3X, enter 2 more characters, click cancel 3 more times...  etc. for both the new password and the confirmation.  It also wouldn't let me use the password I wanted to, which is why I couldn't remember what it was in the first place, it keeps making me change it to something new.  Aside from keeping passwords on a post it note on the computer, which would defeat the purpose, I don't know how to get around this.
...and I used to prefer macs because they were more user friendly.  I've been having trouble with tabs in safari not closing when I click on the "X", and other little stuff for a long time too.  In the last year or so I'm starting to think that as long as I have to put up with this kind of buggy stuff I might as well do it on a PC for half the price.

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