Keychain not working

Hello, and thanks.
I recently got around to changing my admin password, and now every time I use Safari or Mail, I am constantly asked for a password -- and every time I enter my Mail password and check remember in Keychain, it is ignored and I have to keep entering it. I want to use Keychain First Aid, but I get the following response:
Repair started
Checking keychain configuration for [XXXZZZ] (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/admin
Checked login keychain
User differs on ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist, should be 501, owner is 0
Owner not corrected on ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist, reason: No such file or directory
Checked default keychain
Checked keychain search list
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked contents of /Library/Keychains/FileVaultMaster.keychain
Warning: some problems were not fixed
Repair failed
Help!

Great question. I just located the file, (follow the path to the library, preferences...) used the get info command to open the dialog box, and where the tab says owner, i changed that from system to me. the system asked me for my password, and I marked it with a color for future ease of discovery. Then, I re-ran the keychain repair, repair was completed. For good measure I chose verify, ran through and all is well.
Now lets see if that fixes the other issues. good luck.

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SystemCACertificates.keychain
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SystemTrustSettings.plist
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after rebooting a million times i get lucky and connect to the internet.
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in my keychain access i have two login keychains and system boots
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Hello , I have ipad, iphone and imac .
I have a big problem which Apple does not fix me , take a week with him, and just make me instructions for Dummies ( from sites supporting )
the problem is that the ios devices do not save or read data from the keychain , Mac seems so.
no biggie configuration with a new id apple works perfectly , it's no problem to restore the keychain , I have done over 100 times .
the problem is that my apple id has something corrupt, and do not know or will not fix it.
They have made me change the password for testing and have put my apple id in test mode , and so far I have no answer .
I've tried all the options, with security code without code with sms ... and does not work .
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every 2 days call me to tell me the steps to make fools out anywhere , and no longer to do.
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mambaman wrote:
Why would some sites not allow it though?
Because anybody gaining access to your computer would be able to automatically log into the site without having to enter any additonal information. I don't know of any of my financial institutions that allow it.
That doesn't make sense especially when talking about Google or Facebook!
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Next step is to create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem remains. If not, then it's a problem with the original account. If so, then the problem's system-wide.
If the original account, you have two options: 1) try to find the corrupted file, maybe the com.apple.keychainaccess.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/. Move it to the desktop, log out and back in, relaunch Keychain Access. If that doesn't work, then check all the .plist files with something like Preferential Treatment. 2) reset your prefs in the new account and eventually delete the original.
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Tutorial: Resolving Keychain Issues
If you can't access your keychain, or forget your password If you can't get into your keychain file because you've forgotten your password or the keychain file appears to be corrupt, there are a couple of options.
First, if you've forgotten your password, you can use the "Keychain First Aid" utility to make the keychain password the same as the login password. This can be accomplished via the following process:
1. Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"
3. Click the "First Aid" tab
4. Make sure the "Synchronize login keychain password" box is checked
5. Close the Preferences window
6. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Keychain First Aid"
7. Enter your username and password
8. Click the "Repair" button
The second option is to completely delete your keychain then recreate it. This routine is useful if your keychain appears to be corrupt or otherwise inaccessible. This can be accomplished as follows:
1. Launch Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
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3. Select the problematic keychain from the left-hand pane.
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Login as root and perform repair In some cases, problems with keychains can only be resolved when logged in as the root user.
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1. OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user
2. OS X Lion: Enable and disable the root user
3. Mac OS X 10.6: Enabling the root user
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Can't reset my keychain. Just upgraded to Mavericks, had to restart for an iTunes update and everything went downhill from there.
dozens of applications ask for access to 'local items', my user password doesn't work and i tried a few other passwords that it might have been, but i know i used my user password before installing mavericks, but that's not working.
Went online to try to find answers, got pointed to the 'reset my default keychain', clicked it and the program asked for the password for 'local items' keychain, tried my user password again, didn't work. The 'Login' keychain is now gone completely, it disappeared. Clicking 'reset my default keychain' brings the popup 'specified keychain could not be found', so that won't work anymore.
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Checking keychain configuration for yousefshohayeb (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/yousefshohayeb
Checked login keychain
Error: login keychain not found
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Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain may cause the keychain to be locked
Current values: lockOnSleep=yes, autoLock=5 mins
Unable to change keychain settings (-128)
Checked default keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
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Repair failed
after that, i restarted my computer, when i put my username to login to my account, i got asked to provide the keychain password for 'local items'. This happened while i was logging in and the computer refused to log into the account until i pressed the 'cancel' button.
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Your login.keychain password is out of sync with the new iCloud keychain and needs to be re-sync'd.
The new iCloud keychain is either called "Local items" if you don't have syncing enabled or "iCloud" if you enabled iCloud keychain sync.
Open 'Keychain Access' Application
Select the 'login' keychain from the keychains list
Click the lock at the top to lock the login keychain
Click the lock again to unlock the login keychain
After entering your login keychain password you should be presented with a dialog:
Clicking the reset button will re-sync your login.keychain password with the iCloud keychain password.
If everything from the above fails for whatever reason the last resort you can do the following:
Open terminal
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ls
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94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464 (this number is unique on each system)
rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
Reboot
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Buenas noches,
Me gustaría comunicarle a la comunidad que no me esta funcionando correctamente el Keychain en mi iPad 4 con iOS 8.1, desde que he actualizado tanto mi iPad como mi iPod, he tenido problemas.
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After an aborted Mavericks clean install, I reverted to Mountain Lion via Time Machine and started experimenting with iCloud Keychain on Mavericks using trashable Virtual Machines.
I am hitting two serious problems with email accounts :
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2. First time I turned it on and used my usual AppleID, the test install retrieved all my email accounts (I have many of all types)
3. I could not make password SMTPS work on any IMAP accounts, so I decided to delete ALL email accounts from my iCloud Keychain
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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of this exercise is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account, or is system-wide. Enable guest logins and log in as Guest. For instructions, launch the System Preferences application, select “Help” from the menu bar, and enter “Set up a guest account” (without the quotes) in the search box.
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Let me explain what I did:
1. I created S/MIME certificates for 2 email addresses on my iMac in Keychain Access. One email address exists only on the iMac the other only on the iPad.
2. I set "When using this certificate" to "Always Trust" in both certificates.
3. I exported 1 S/MIME certificate (p12) and installed it on the iPad. Then I deleted this certificate and its private&public keys in iMac Keychain Access
4. I exchanged public certificates between the 2 devices. I installed one certificate in iMac Keychain Access and the other in iPad/Settings/General/Profiles.
5. On the iMac in the iPad certificate I set "When using this certificate" to "Always Trust"
6. I tested whether I can send and receive signed and/or encrypted emails
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