Keychain wants my password and I don't know what it is
Hi, I just recently updated my computer to Mavericks 10.9.1. After I restarted my laptop it asked for my password to my computer which I entered and then it a thing popped up that said "com.apple wants your keychain access password. I do not remember ever setting up a keychain password and so I tried every password I normally use and they were all wrong. Even when I hit cancel the window continued to pop up every second not allowing me to do anything. I finally restarted my computer and got to the desktop and it still would pop up. I have gone to the keychain access and deleted everything, I even reset the keychain in the preferences menu. After doing all of this the window stopped popping up but everytime I am trying to do something on safari it asks me to reset my keychain and reset all defaults and still asks for a keychain password.
So in conclusion I just want to get rid of keychain completely if thats possible or turn it completely off somehow so it stops prompting me to enter in a password.
Thanks
Yes I did try just entering nothing but the window just shakes like the password is wrong. I did the other thing you said and went to the terminal and entered "resetpassword". I then reset the password to something new and then this window popped up.
"Login Password Reset
The login password for Bryce Andrews (bandrews212) was reset.
The user's default keychain password wasn't changed. If the default keychain password is different from the login passord, the user will be asked for a password whenever and application needs to access the dfault keychain, if that keychain is locked.
To change the password for the dfault keychain, restart the computer and use Keychain Access (in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder)."
So I reset the password for my computer. And then went into Keychain Access (which I have done before) and clicked Keychain Access in the tool bar and then chose Keychain First Aid. It had my username in the box and the box below that asked for my password. I just entered the same password I use to get onto my computer. And I chose the bullet verify. Then this came up in the box below
"Verification started
Checking keychain configuration for bandrews212 (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/bandrews212
Checked login keychain
Error: login keychain not found
Unable to get info for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, reason: The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory
Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Unable to verify password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25294)
Unable to read settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25294)
Checked default keychain
Checked keychain search list
Problems were found; you should choose the Repair option to fix them
Verification failed"
Then I chose the box repair and this came up:
"Repair started
Checking keychain configuration for bandrews212 (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/bandrews212
Checked login keychain
Error: login keychain not found
Repair terminated unexpectedly"
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