OS X Mavericks keychain trouble

I have installed OS X mavericks on my 4 yr old imac. I keep getting asked to enter passwords for different applications to use my local keychain. I never set up any passwords for these applications and I have tried all passwords I use but they are rejected. I now have tried to perform the keychain first Aid. But my iMac was bought second hand and it is showing the previous owners name. My gutt feeling is that it wants his password and that is the problem. Is there a way I can delete him ?

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If that doesn't work, see below.
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Hello,
After updating to Mavericks (from Mountain Lion), I noticed that there's a new keychain called "local items" inside Keychain Access App.
so I have a couple of questions regarding this and my usage of Mail:
1) from what I read in this forum, "local items" is the keychain created by Mavericks, it should sync to the login keychain (which is usually, and certainly in my case, the default keychain, meaning it is in bold face on the left hand side of the Keychain Access window). And as far as I understand, if you have icloud enabled, this keychain would be called "icloud keychain", if not, it will remain the name "local items", is this correct? I do not want to have anything to do with icloud, so I don't have any icloud keychain. When I log into the my account on the mac both the login and the "local items" keychain are unlocked (I guess this makes sense if they are supposed to be synced. So basically this is my understanding of this "local items" keychain, please correct/inform me if this understanding is not correct.
2) now, I noticed that the passwords that I typed in for my e-mail accounts (set up in Apple's Mail) are saved inside this "local items" keychain. So everything seems to be fine. However, I noticed that the passwords saved inside this "local items" keychain cannot be edited in the "access control" panel (this is accessed by double clicking the password item and click on the "access control" tab.) This is odd because all the other items in the "login" keychain can be edited in this way.
3) so my main goal is to ask Mail to NOT remember my password (I know this is not the prefer setting for most users, but I prefer to have it this way). In Leopard, Mail had a little checkbox where you set up your account that asks the application to NOT remember the password. This is really handy because it prompts me to re-enter the password whenever I restart the application, which is exactly what I want it to behave. But since upgrading to Mountain Lion (I'm not sure how it is in Snow Leopard or Lion, as I jumped from Leopard straight to Mountain Lion, and now to Mavericks), this box has disappearred. I found a work around online. Before Mavericks, the mail account passwords are saved (if I remember correctly) in the login keychain, the work around works by saving (i.e. dragging) all your email passwords into a separate/new keychain (let's call it Keychain A) which has a different password than your login keychain (which, by definition, is unlocked upon login). So I set this up and Mail automatically knows to prompt me to enter the password for Keychain A in order to access my e-mail account passwords. This doesn't behave exactly like unchecking "remember the password" box in Leopard, but it comes close. and I was happy with this work around. However, now having upgraded to MAvericks, Mail insisted on using "local items" as keychain, and keeps asking me the passwords for my e-mail accounts (NOT the local item keychain password, since my local item keychain IS synced up with Login keychain, therefore they are both unlocked upon me logging in) so that it can store them. The thing is I do NOT want the e-mail passwords to be stored inside "local items" keychain (because I don't want account access to equal e-mail access (for reasons I do not want to get into, but I feel like this is not too much to ask and was possible before so why not now?).
Could someone please help me out with this? I've called Apple, and they were quite annoyed with me because the person I talked to keeps saying that I'm not using keychain for the way it is suppoed to be used, but my question then, is, if I canot get applications to use special keychains I set up, what's the use of the function "add new keychain" inside keychain access? (in fact, the phone supporter basically keep saying "I don't know" to my questions and finally offered me to talk to a senior advisor, at that point I had to leave (and after 1hour on the phone I was quite fed up anyway). so I thought I should turn to the forum.....
so a recap/summary:
my login and local items keychain sync up fine
but I don't want Mail to store my e-mail passwords in the local items keychain
I want to make Mail use another keychain (i.e. a keychain I set up myself), can we possible to this?
or another other work around that will make Mail to prompt me to enter passwords when I fire up the application (not constantly, but just when I restarting the application, OR after the computer wakes up)
I'd appreciate any pointers!
thank you very much!
sakura

I have the same concerns. I'm frustrated that the Mail app doesn't currently allow you to use a separate keychain for the passwords. After many years with Keychain I am being tempted to look to a third party. Or perhaps it's time to look for a third party mail app? This is a security issue since email is the primary way that a password change is verified with other accounts.

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I had the same issue just now, but I found the solution.
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hope that helps others.

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Today I Updated my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.
After Installing the first boot went smooth but the mac after booting asked me to reboot again.
On the second Restart when the login window appeared also apeared a Password input window asking me to enter the password for several "LOCAL ITEMS" in the keychain but when I type my administrator password it won't work.
I hit the ESC key and the window appears several times asking for different password for several items that need access to "Local Items" in the keychain.
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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.
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Click the lock at the top to lock the login keychain
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94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464 (this number is unique on each system)
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Mavericks bugs, trouble with computer

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Hi,
I'm sorry for posting picture, and thanks for the reply.
The script I used was on the picture I posted yesterday, in any case I'll just type it here
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akosijesyang - the conqueror
Please read the above responses very carefully.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Keychain trouble

Hi all
I recently had a problem with my Keychain password chainging back to my Admin Password on it's own from the Password I had set. This was easy to sort, I simply changed the PW back to what I wanted within Keychain Access.
However this afternoon I was prompted to enter my PW to access a web site and it wouldn't accept it. So I tried my admin PW hoping that the same as before had happened. It hadn't, it ended up after many troubleshooting attempts that I couldn't gain access my Keychain at all. I had to reset my Keychain and start all over, hundreds of passwords lost.
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Message was edited by: Eddie Strauss

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Hi
I had the same problem and the linked solution involving restarting an AirPort didn't work for me either.
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