KeyChain Password Keeps Popping Up

(Only) ... so far .... on my daughter's User Acoount, when she is in Safari, etc. before she can use the apllications she is trying to use, the Key Chain Password window opens up each and every time and she has to click on the cancel button each time before she can go on. Where and What neesd changing in the Preferences/ Other so this doesn't keep happening ?
Thanks

Hi Eric,
if you do not know the password of her keychain then there is no way to change the password. This is what makes the keychain so secure: no password - no access.
By default, both your login and your keychain password are the same. Once you log into your account the keychain is opened and all applications that need a particular password to perform their duty can automatically retrieve that password from the keychain without any user interaction.
However, once your keychain has a different password it will not open on login. The applications will still try to access the stored informations but cannot do so, without giving them the keychain password. That is why these windows pop up, asking you for the keychain's password.
So, either you come up with the correct password and then change it to one that matches your daughter's login password or you will have to delete the keychain: In Keycain Access, choose Keychain List from the Edit menu and then delete the "login" keychain. Deleting the keychain removes the keychain from the Keychains list but does not remove the keychain file from your disk. If you remember your password later, you can recover the items stored in the keychain by choosing Edit > Keychain List and adding this file.
-Petra

Similar Messages

  • Keychain password keeps popping out

    Keychain password keep poping out every time I use something, I tried to change the password for couple of times but didn't stop, tried to delete all keychains in first aid keychain but still nothing stopped. What should I do?

    At some point, you reset your keychain to default in Keychain Access. That caused your login keychain to be renamed.
    Back up all data.
    In Keychain Access, delete the login keychain from the keychain list. Choose Delete References when prompted, not Delete References & Files.
    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
    ~/Library/Keychains
    In the Finder, select
    Go ▹ Go to Folder...
    from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V), and press return. A folder will open. Rename the file "login.keychain" in that folder to something like "login-old.keychain". Rename the file "login-renamed.keychain" to "login.keychain".
    Back in Keychain Access, select
    File ▹ Add Keychain...
    from the menu bar. Add back the file now named "login.keychain". If any of your needed keychain items are missing from it, also add back the file you named "login-old.keychain". I suggest you transfer any needed items from that keychain to the login keychain, then delete it. The transfers are made by drag-and-drop in Keychain Access. You'll need to enter your password for each item transferred.

  • Apple id password keep popping up, facebook app wont open

    I cannot open facebook.the screen gones blank. "apple id password" keeps popping up
    Message was edited by: jdlajo Apple id keeps popping up

    Reset & restore
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

  • Password keeps popping up

    password keeps popping up when surfing internet, playing games, etc.

    See if this makes any difference.
    Sign out of your account, restart the iPad
    Settings>Store>Apple ID. Tap your ID and sign out. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
    See if the password request starts popping up again. If it doesn't , then go back to Settings>Store>Sign and then sign in again.

  • I found a iphone4s and want to delete icloud but password keeps popping up

    i found a iphone4s and want to delete icloud but password keeps popping up

    Unless you are able to input the previous iCloud credentials, then all you've found is a brick.

  • A request for my admin password keeps popping up randomly and a symbol (5 blue circles surrounding a yellow star) will show in the dock. I haven't typed in my password, just keep cancelling it. itg is called finish_installation.

    A request for my admin password keeps popping up randomly and a symbol (5 blue circles surrounding a yellow star) will show in the dock. I haven't typed in my password, just keep cancelling it. The file is called "finish_installation". Also icon is very pixelated. It seems very suspect and I am afraid my mac has a virus?!?!?! Any one? Please help.
    I can not find this file anywhere on the system after this request shows up!

    Doubtful it's malware ...
    Try relaunching the Finder. Press Command + Option + Esc then select Finder in Force Quit window then click Restart. 
    If that doesn't help, launch the Terminal app located in HD > Applications > Utlities
    Copy and paste this command into the Terminal window:
    killall Dock then press Return or Enter on your keyboard.
    The Dock will disappear for must a moment.
    See if that made a difference.

  • Safari login keychain box keeps popping up - how to stop?

    Please excuse this rookie question, but we recently bought an IMac. The Safari login keychain box keeps popping up and after clicking on cancel, it comes up again and after clicking on cancel again it goes away for a while, then comes back later and does the same thing. How to stop?

    OS x 10.5 Lion or 10.9 Mavericks?
    OS X 10.9 Mavericks
    “Local Items” keychain prompt?
    This may help.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5362?viewlocale=en_US

  • Help Please my Keychain Login keeps popping up and refusing my password.

    I don't normally have a login password on boot up but I have not used the login for so long I've forgotten my password.
    OK so I used the MacBook 13 Install Disk and reset the password to something more memorable.
    Then it advised me to synchronize this with the Keychain Password which I knew nothing about.
    So I put in the same password in the keychain password box.
    Now when I boot up I get a password box and my user name every time (I'd like to switch that off as I don't need a password, I'm the only user and nobody will steal this MacBook)
    But even when I login with my new password, the Keychain Password box keeps popping up and asking for the pass. I type in the one I had set and it tells me that's incorrect. So the box pops up again and again.
    Next it came up every time I tried to send or receive email and asked me to log the email password into the Keychain list as well so I did place a tick in that box. But still the Keychain keeps coming up.
    Can I switch off all the BootUp adminstrator password boxes so it goes the way it used to when I first got it? Also can I kill off the Keychain thing as it has 18 entries in it that maybe can be scrapped. They're all my chat passwords and email server ones in the list.
    I tried a Keychain Verify and Repair in the Applications Utilities and it says all is checking out fine yet it still won't accept what I type in the password box for Keychain. I'm only using a 7 letter password.
    Can anyone solve this for me if I follow the list of instructions on how to turn all this password thing off? Hope so.
    Thanks
    Plado

    See if this MacFixit tutorial helps:
    Tutorial: Keychain issues; resolving
    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:
    Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities
    Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"
    Click the "First Aid" tab
    Make sure the "Synchronize login keychain password" box is checked
    Close the Preferences window
    Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Keychain First Aid"
    Enter your username and password
    Click the "Repair" button
    Another 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:
    Launch Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
    Click "Show Keychains" in the lower-left corner of the window.
    Select the problematic keychain from the left-hand pane.
    Navigate to the "File" menu and select "Delete Keychain '(name of keychain)'"
    Check all options for deletion and press "OK"
    Create a new keychain by going to the "File" menu, then "New" and selecting "New Keychain"
    You can now make this keychain your default if you desire by selecting it, then going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make '(name of keychain)' Default"
    Login as root and perform repair In some cases, problems with keychains can only be resolved when logged in as the root user.
    First, enable root user.
    After enabling the root user, and logging in under this account, again open Keychain Access. First attempt repairs using Keychain First Aid, and failing that, delete then recreate the keychain as described above while logged in as root.
    Persistently asked for stored passwords If you are persistently asked for passwords in various applications that you have specified should be remembered in a keychain, your "login" keychain may not be active for one reason or another.
    Navigate to ~/Library/Keychains/ (this is the Library folder inside your user home folder). Find the file named "login.keychain" and double-click it.
    Failing that, select the "login" keychain within the Keychain Access application and make sure it is the default keychain by going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make 'Login' Default"
    Turn off Keychain synchronization in applications having problems If specific applications are experiencing issues when accessing password-protected material, Keychain may be to blame.
    For example, it appears that in some cases, failures in .Mac synchronization transfers are linked to issues with Keychain.
    If you are having problems synchronizing data with .Mac servers, you may want to try the following process:
    Open System Preferences and access the .Mac pane
    Click the "Sync" tab
    Uncheck the "Synchronize with .Mac" checkbox
    Close System Preferences
    Re-open System Preferences and repeat steps 1 and 2
    Re-check the "Synchronize with .Mac" checkbox
    If the above process does not re-allow synchronization, you may need to leave Keychain synchronization turned off in the "Sync" tab of the .Mac System Preferences pane.
    The above comes from an article published on MacFixit.com.

  • Keychain Login keeps popping up, what do I do?

    Every time I use my MacPro lately, a message keeps popping up asking me for my keychain login for different applications like Itunes and Chrome. It even pops up every 10 or so minutes when I'm using it. I tried deleting everything from Keychain access, but nothing has changed, so what do I do?

    Back up all data.
    Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
    Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
    If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
    Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
    From the menu bar, select
    Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
    If the box marked Keep login keychain unlocked is not checked, check it.
    Select
    Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
    from the menu bar and repair the keychain. Quit Keychain Access.

  • My iphone 4 has become unusable because Incorrect Apple ID Password keeps popping up even though I have entered my password correctly

    The message just keeps popping up and I can't do anything with the phone. It's most frustrating

    If it says incorrect password the password is incorrect, even if you think it is correct. But are you sure it is asking for the password for the same account that you are entering the password for?

  • I want to download apps but my apple id passwords keeps popping up and its annoying. How do i stop that?

    How do i stop the apple id password from popping up when i want to download apps ?

    You don't. That is how it works. It is a verification process. Would you like anyone that picked up your phone to be able to make purchases? I don't think so.

  • Voicemail Password keeps popping up

    This just began last night. At random times when I am using the iPhone it would ask for my voicemail password. I would do a soft-reset and it would still ask for it. I do not have any voicemails either.
    Any ideas?

    I had the same problem when I got my 3G. I kept pressing CANCEL. I discovered that the "Enter Voicemail Password" was popping up because I had a voicemail message that was not showing up on the display. Once I entered my voicemail password, the display then showed all of the messages for each time I had been asked about the voicemail password. Since I entered my voicemail password that one time, the voicemail password message has not appeared. A friend had the same problem and solved it this way also. Hopefully, this will work for you.

  • Apple ID Password keeps popping up

    Earlier today I had to restore my iPhone, and it screwed some stuff up.
    An iCloud restore got most of it working, but a few things were wrong. My apps were out of order (not in any folders), and a couple other minor things. No big deal though.
    After syncing my music back, my iPhone keeps asking for a few different Apple ID passwords...since it keeps suggesting a few different Apple IDs, I am led to believe that I have music from a few friends that I previously had authorized, but now I need to re-authorize them.
    Honestly, I'd like to just get rid of those couple songs (I have too many for one or two to matter probably). How can I find a song that has a certain Apple ID? Either in iTunes or on my iPhone, I don't care.
    Thanks!

    What the phone is trying to do is download some music off the cloud that's tied to these other people. Click the iTunes App and if there is a number pending in your downloads this should be the issue.
    Also delete this music in your Music App. This is music that you added to your Library that was purchased by someone else not with your iPhone but it contains the info

  • TS3276 my email was fine up until about a week and a half ago; I can receive email,but I cannot send email.  A box with a message asking for a password keeps popping up.

    My email was fine up until about a week and a half ago.  I recieve mail, but cannot send email without the box popping up asking for a password?

    Get new Mail - workaround

  • Keychain requests keep popping up

    I am using a MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks 10.9.   After installing Mavericks I was having trouble with keychain.  After taking my computor to a Mac Service Center he Bypassed my old keychain we installed a new one and now I can use my computor.  I get pop up windows now asking to use my keychain and I have to clear these before continuing.  Calendar Agent, Address book, icloud helper, are the main culprets.  How can I get these cleared?

    Is it asking for the Local Items keychain? If so, open up Finder and click Go on the top menu bar then select Go To Folder. Type in ~/Library/Keychains and press Go. In here you will see a folder with a series of numbers and letters separated by hyphens. Delete this folder and then try restarting the computer.

Maybe you are looking for