I forgot my Keychain Login Password for Mac Yosemite

My Mac restarted the other night itself and once I opened my profile it is asking to type in Login Keychain. I can't think of anything else, tried all possible ways. Now when I try to use a method how to reset to a default it simply stops working, the loading circle keep spinning but nothing happens. Any ideas what's going on and how can I solve this!
Thank you!

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Resetting your login password with the install disc does not reset the login keychain password. When creating a login account and password, the password for the account's login keychain is the same as the login account password. If you want the login keychain password to be different, you must change it via Keychain Access. Changing the login account's password via an install disc does not change the login keychain password for the login account. I believe this is for security reasons. Although a thief can gain access to a person's login account and home folder/directory by using an install disc to manually change the login password for the account, this does not change the login keychain password also so sensitive data stored in a person's keychain cannot be accessed without knowing the original login account password that matches the original login keychain password.
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Does anyone happen to know anything about the keychain SECURITY password? I know what my keychain LOGIN password is and have been able to change it. I don't remember setting up a keychain security password and I haven't been able to find information on how to change it or access it or even find out more about it.
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However under security, when I go in I can unlock it with my login password which is the same as my keychain login password.
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In the listing after date modified under the keychain heading what I see is System not login like Login file above. So I'm trying to find out what that is all about and just have no clue and am a bit frustrated.
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