Mac OS X wants to make changes. Why is this randomly showing up?

This just started yesterday, while I'm working with other applications. I'm not making system changes nor renaming folders. It doesn't say what changes, but my login window changed from blank boxes (my preference) to a list of names.
What's going on here?
Jim Ward

What do you have in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items?
Also post your Console log from Applications/Utilities/Console around the time of the last or next event.

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Mac OS X wants to make changes. Type an administrator's name and password to allow this.
Mac OS X wants to use the "System" keychain.
Username:
Password:
Now, I am used to seeing this occasionally when I run some app that indeed needs to do something requiring admin privileges. But in the case of Shrook, this will happen 10-15 times in quick succession. It also happens on other apps - and the common factor seems to be the use of embedded browser capabilities (I guess web kit plugin or something like that). For example, another app that shows this behaviour is F5 BIG-IP Edge Client - again, I might be prompted 10-15 times during login, and it has an embedded web page in the UI.
This behaviour seems to have just happened (well, in the past couple of days or so)
Interesting things about it:
The username field in the prompt is empty - whereas previously, when this prompt occurred (rarely) it contained my (long) User name
It seems to happen when the app is trying some sort of network/web access - probably in connection with HTTPS and hence keychain access
I see the same behaviour in Safari when I end up using a client certificate (using HTTPS) to connect to a remote web server (when I might get the prompt 2 times or so).
NB: The multiple prompts are NOT caused by me entering an incorrect user/password - that is easy to distinguish because the prompt will 'shiver' if I do enter an invalid combination, and will leave the username/password in the fields ready for me to correct them
It seems to me that the app doesn't seem to know who it is running as - hence the empty username field.
- chris

I just solevd it :-)
I went to keychain access and reset my default keychain ...
After a system reboot and some certificate reimports, everyting is now fine.
Maybe my key chain got messed up?
Anyway, a reste on the keychain worked a treat ...
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Hi Thomas,
This screen is asking for your Computer Password to make the necessary changes. It's Mac mechanism to authenticate whether you are the Admin user or not.
Try deleting the user caches and that should fix the issue : http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/08/delete-user-caches-in-mac-os-x/
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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