Keychain password request on login

When I log in (admin account) I am asked for my keychain password. I'm not sure why?
When I enter my password (my login password) I am told that iti is invalid. I looked in the Help (a bit!) and it said the keychain password was the same as the Login password. If that's not the case, which password would it be as I haven't set any others up. Have I??
iBook 1.42Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Your keychain password is usually the same as your login password, but it doesn't have to be. You can manually set the keychain password to be different, or in some situations it can become "out of sync".
Have you perhaps had to reset your password by booting from the install CD? Or have you logged in to another admin account and then used Sys.Prefs to change the password of the account that now has the problem?
In either of the above cases the login password will be changed but the keychain password will not. In those cases the keychain password will still be the original password it had before the change. So you might try using a previous password when prompted by the keychain to see if it works.
If you can discover the keychain password, then you can use Keychain Access to change it's password to match your login password. Then it will unlock automatically when you login and you'll stop getting prompted.
I suppose it's also possible that the keychain password may have become corrupt in some way. If this is the case you may be out of luck.
If you can't get the keychain unlocked after attempting any previous passwords, then you'll likely have to simply delete the keychain and let the system create a new one (which will be created with your login password).
In your home folder, go to ~/Library/Keychains and drag "login.keychain" out of the folder. Then logoff and log back in. This should create a new empty keychain for you and it should be "in sync" with your login password.
Steve

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The last four deal exclusively with your .Mac account. There was a recent thread about mail passwords and a solution. However, since i don't use it, I don't remember the details. Search these forums or review the threads the past two or three days. A keychain password is required for all administrative-level tasks, such as logging in, logging into secured websites, sending/receiving mail, installing software, etc. Get used to it. BTW, launch Keychain Access, lock/unlock or unlock/lock the login.keychain, and then use Keychain First Aid to verify/repair your login.keychain. Log out and back in. That should do it.

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I've gotten mixed feedback on this: What additional security, if any, is obtained by making your keychain password different from your login password?

I concede that if:
- any shoulder-lookers/keyloggers have equal access to the login and keychain passwords
- the login password isn't being used for anything else
- the login password isn't being stored in some other insecure location (maybe in a script for use in a sudo command)
- you're not using ftp/some other protocol w/insecure logins to connect to that computer and get data
then there is no reason to have separate login and keychain passwords.
But what I'm saying is that there are lots of little things (like those I mentioned above) that can be security holes that one simply doesn't think about. A user who is truly concerned about security may wish to simply have two separate passwords, thereby avoiding many (not all) potential insecurities.
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See if this helps...
Open Keychain Access in Utilities, use Keychain First Aid under the Keychain Menu item, then either check the Password under that item, change it, or delete it and start over.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1631
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1544

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I am wondering if anyone else has the password chain pop up every time they send an email.
Once it goes to the outbox i can send it from there, but it gets tedious.
Thanks for any help.
I read another discussion on this that sounds similar - but i am not sure how to apply the discussion to me.
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Hi lindsayMPollard,
Sounds like a Keychain password issue. Try the steps in this article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1777.html It applies for both 10.4 and 10.5.
If that doesn't fix it, try this http://support.apple.com/kb/TS154.

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I have encountered the same issue. I upgraded to 10.8 from 10.6.9 days ago, and I receive a keychain password request every 10-15 minutes (I know this after recording them in an effort to determine the issue). The requests vary, and are not perfectly timed. I went to a local Apple Store yesterday to request some help, and a Genius repaired my keychain, zapped my PRAM, and booted from the 10.8 startup partition to run the following on my startup HD: Disk Utility repair, Disk Permissions repair, and resetpassword from the terminal. These did not stop the keychain requests.
There's no corresponding message or trigger listed in the Console. I have noticed the following message occur sometimes within ~3 minutes after a keychain request:
8/5/12 3:33:42.154 PM assistantd[6226]: <Error>: AceConnection - NSStreamEventErrorOccurred <__NSCFInputStream: 0x7fe2ac027520>, error = Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=54 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Connection reset by peer", domain = NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code = 54
8/5/12 3:33:42.166 PM assistantd[6226]: <Error>: Session - Connection error: <ADAceConnection: 0x7fe2aac34930> Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=54 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Connection reset by peer"
8/5/12 3:33:42.178 PM assistantd[6226]: <Error>: Daemon - Session Error Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=54 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Connection reset by peer"
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8/5/12 3:40:53.366 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't find keychain value Assistant Identifier for account [...]
8/5/12 3:40:55.168 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't find keychain value Speech Identifier for account [...]
8/5/12 3:40:57.060 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't find keychain value Validation Data for account [...]
8/5/12 3:40:58.209 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't find keychain value Server Certificate Data for account [...]
8/5/12 3:40:59.168 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't find keychain value Validation Data for account [...]
8/5/12 3:40:59.852 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't find keychain value Server Certificate Data for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:00.608 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Server Certificate Data from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:02.020 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Assistant Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:02.719 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Speech Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:03.302 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Assistant Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:03.928 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Speech Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:04.593 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Assistant Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:05.229 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Speech Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:25.323 PM assistant_service[6343]: <Error>: Service - Client did not update postAnchor for preAnchor -1 9439487C-7CF5-4FD5-9C70-88E731E196D1:ABPerson, canceling sync
8/5/12 3:41:41.525 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Assistant Identifier from keychain for account [...]
8/5/12 3:41:42.219 PM assistantd[6327]: <Error>: Daemon - Couldn't update value Speech Identifier from keychain for account [...]
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When I set up an account in system settings for Empathy
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Please take these steps to resynchronize the iCloud keychain. Your keychain on iCloud and your other Apple devices won't be affected. Take Step 2 only if Step 1 doesn't solve the problem.
Step 1
Back up all data.
Open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the Keychain box. You'll be prompted to delete the local iCloud keychain. Confirm—the data will remain on the servers. Then re-check the box. Follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set up iCloud Keychain on an additional device. Test.
Step 2
If you still have problems, uncheck the Keychain box again and continue.
Triple-click 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
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Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
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421DE5CA-D745-3AC1-91B0-CE5FC0ABA128
The above is only an example; yours will have a different name of the same general form. Drag the subfolder (not the Keychains folder) to the Trash and empty.
Restart the computer and re-enable iCloud Keychain.

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