System Keychain Issue?

I am prompted to manually log into a network on startup. I've tried many things to fix it ... first aid, deleted airport preferences, deleted keychains, created new admin users, deleted networks, deleted passwords from the keychain, & even reinstalled the system twice. I had a similar problem with my mail preferences that were fixed when I reset the user keychains. My hunch at this point is that the "system" keychain is corrupted. Does anybody know how to easily reset the system keychain. My next step is a 100% clean install of the entire hard drive if I can't figure this out.
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Mokkdoom, give this a try:
Open Keychain app. (Utilities folder).
At the bottom left, under the sidebar, click on 'Show Keychains'.
The top of the sidebar slides down to reveal keychains - click on 'System'.
You'll see in the main large window to the right the keychain you need to delete (AirPort?).
Delete it from the Edit menu (or the delete key on your keyboard). It'll be recreated next time you are asked for a password, but won't keep pestering you after that (if all goes well!).
Go to the bottom left of the window and click on Hide Keychains.
See if that does the trick. I can't claim credit for it - it's a problem/solution that's been mentioned often on these forums.

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The System.keychain Conundrum: THE REAL SOLUTION.

Symptom: After applying an update or some kind of instance where a shutdown occurred, upon rebooting, Mac OS X will demand a password for System.keychain. No password will ever work, not even root.
I had this happen to me and no one anywhere seemed to know how to fix it except for temporary workarounds that really didn't work.
First off, let me tell you what WON'T work as a solution:
1. Deleting offending AirPort network passwords in System.keychain - All you're doing is making OS X forget the passwords of those base stations in your Preferred Networks list (Network Preferences). If you attempt to put the passwords back and apply the changes, OS X will again demand the password for System.keychain.
2. Keychain First Aid - It will think that nothing is wrong with System.keychain, so as long as it is there.
3. Repair Permissions - Everyone believes that repairing permissions is the cure-all method for any problem with Mac OS X. It won't work because it already has the correct permissions (root:admin 755).
4. Deleting System.keychain itself - You won't ever get it back, and any base station added to your list of trusted networks will not have its password saved. Sure, it may save for YOUR login.keychain, but what if you have multiple users?
5. Replacing System.keychain with another from a known good system - This doesn't work either, and I'll explain why a little later.
6. Deleting /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist - That has nothing to do with the problem.
7. Duplicating your login.keychain and renaming it as System.keychain - Sure, you'll be able to unlock it with your admin password, but that doesn't solve the problem.
No one - not even from Apple themselves (phone reps and store Genius
Bars) - knew how to fix this issue. Google or search the discussion boards all you want; you'll be wasting your time as no one really seems to know what the problem is and have employed one of those seven methods.
NOW FOR THE SOLUTION...
WARNING: This assumes that you are competent with the command line AND you have a working copy of OS X somewhere else nearby, preferably on an external disk partition. I'm not going to explain the basics of using the Terminal or how to access both of your systems at the same time. If you are afraid of screwing up, simply reinstall Mac OS X and say a few prayers that it will fix itself (assuming that another Software Update won't mess it up again).
The problem lies with a file deep in the bowels of OS X. It's /var/db/SystemKey. What it does is that it tells Mac OS X how to unlock the system keychain. It only knows the System.keychain specific to the computer, so if you import another System.keychain as a replacement, SystemKey won't know how to unlock it and you'll keep getting the annoying dialogs prompting for System.keychain's password.
So without further ado, this is how to stop the annoying dialogs once and for all:
1. AS THE ROOT USER, you will need to copy over /var/db/SystemKey from a known good system to your problematic system. Make sure that you preserve the permissions (0400). It is advisable that you are NOT booted from your problematic system.
2. If you have a good System.keychain, copy that over to /Library/Keychains on the problem system. If you accidentally deleted System.keychain, you can execute the following (again AS ROOT):
/usr/sbin/systemkeychain -C -f
This creates a new, working, empty System.keychain and effectively overwrites the old keychain.
3. Reboot to your system. You will be presented with different, more familiar (Change, Change All) dialogs. If you had any passwords saved in your list of preferred networks, just put them back in.
Best of luck.

A method that worked for me (and many others):
Delete the wireless router entry from the System keychain (do not just delete the password). The entry will automatically get re-created from the similar entry in the login (user) keychain. This solution was posted here within a few days of the release of 10.4.3.
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System Keychain Password

After some security issues I wanted to do some deleting/updating of passwords.
My System Keychain holds passwords for my wireless networks, however , the password I enter after the prompt is not recognised.
I did a Keychain firstaid and all is well?
Any suggestions?

You can't unlock the system.keychain - the password is known only to the system. If you need to remove items from it, open Terminal and type:
sudo systemkeychain -vfcC
This will create a new, blank system keychain.
The options are documented here:
http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/Current/security_systemkeychain-11/src/system keychain.cpp
Once you have recreated the keychain, you can test if it unlocks properly with:
systemkeychain -vt
The options used above are:
-v = verbose
-f = force
-c = create if needed
-C = setup system
-t = test unlock

System keychain problem (2 system keychains)

This issue is not new but I have seen no resolution.
I have a wifi with a password. I can use the wifi but can't remember the security password that I created for it. I went to Keychain Access to see it, and found the wifi listed in the "System" keychain. There are two "System" keychains, with identical contents, which seems odd. When I open the wifi item in the "System" keychain and click on "show password" it asks me for the "keychain password" which it then does not accept. The "keychain password" (or what I set up as the "keychain password") works on the "login" keychain and also an auxiliary keychain I created to store other passwords--there is no problem in revealing the information for these logins/passwords, using my usual passwords--the only problem is on the "System" keychain. My login password for my account is different from my keychain password, but this has not previously caused a problem. How can I get to this wifi password? What is going on with the System keychain, which seems to have created for itself a new, unknown password? Thanks.

OK, figured it out. My wife and I have had the same passwords since we turned on the computer, BUT, I had originally been the admin. A while back, for security, we decided to create a separate account for the admin, (with a new password, obviously), and remove admin privileges for my account.
So, just now, I logged into the admin account and opened keychain access, and there was the wifi device right on the top of the list, no "system" keychain present. I clicked on the "show password" box on the wifi item and the password was revealed. No "keychain password" or any other password requested. Very odd, and still no idea why the "system" keychain is so crazy or why there are two of them, but I'll take it. Thanks for your responses and ideas.

System keychain

I think i have a problem with the system keychain. When i try to save the password for the vpn connections, nothing happens (the password field become empty); it's impossible to do time capsule backup and post this error: "Error -25308 when creating the entry of the system keychain for the username ...". I think that system keychain non longer accessible by my user.
May someone help me?

First of all check, in Terminal, /Library/Keychains/System.keychain permissions which are
ls -la /Library/Keychains/System.keychain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 36768 21 Nov 09:47 System.keychain
also issue this command
security show-keychain-info /Library/Keychains/System.keychain
should return
Keychain "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" lock-on-sleep timeout=300s
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Can I remove all but the last "Mac OS X Server certificate management" application password from my System Keychain?

I am slowly nursing a broken Montain Lion Server back to health. The problems started with a name change days ago then went sour, probably because of some stuff in the keychain that tripped the commands up.
I have now a trusted Root CA in my System Keychain which has signed my wildcard Certificate for my domain and all my services are protected by this wildcard certificate. Creating and installing that certificate helped me back (slowly) but there are still problems to solve
I also have set the com.apple.servermgrd identity preference to this (now trusted) wildcard certificate a few minutes ago
I am busy cleaning as much as possibe of junk from my Keychains to improve stability, of course without damaging things (I hope)
There are 19 "Mac OS X Server certificate management" application passwords in my System Keychain.
12 are from 9 days ago when I installed this clean OS X Mountain Lion Server for the first time, created within a minute during server install.
1 from 6 minutes later, maybe when I turned on a Service
2 are from that day, but 2 and 3 hours later (also probably because of something I did in Server.app, like enabling a service)
1 from 2 days later (probably when I tried to change the server name/domain)
1 from again 5 days later (probably when I tried to change the server name/domain again)
1 from yesterday, when I changed the servername
1 from today, when I changed the server name again.
What are these application passwords for and can I safely remove all but the last one? What are they for?

I went ahead and remove them a month ago. So far, there don't seem to be any issues. As long as you double-triple-check that the hash-number in those "Mac OS X Server certificate management" keychains _aren't_ in the filename of any of the *.pem files in the /etc/certificates folder, you can delete those orphan keychains.

How do I sign back in to iCloud on my Mac after signing out in order to fix a keychain issue?

I signed out of iCloud, following directions on how to fix a keychain issue with all my devices. I was to sign them all out then sign back in on the one with the most info, which is my Mac. I opened Preferences, then iCloud, but the button with "Sign Out" which I assumed would be a toggle does not produce an option for signing back in! Help!

So the iCloud button in System Preferences still says "Sign Out"?
Yes, it is a toggle. If it says "Sign Out", then you are signed in! Sign out, then sign back in.

Airport Utility and System Keychain Problem

I'm having a strange issue when trying to access Airport Utility on our imac. When I click on manual update I get a popup box asking for the administrator user name and pass word because Mac OS X wants to use System keychain. When I type those in the boxes and click allow an error message appears saying I typed an invalid password. I've rebooted, I booted up in Safe Mode which asks you for a password before it logs in - no problems there. I didn't try to access AU from there, not sure if that's possible. I've even gone to account settings and changed the password which requires you to enter the current password, that worked. I used the new password with that warning from Airport Utility but got the same error. I went back and changed the password back to the original and tried again, same error.
I don't normally access AU on that computer, I use my laptop and there are no problems there, so I don't know if this is a problem that just cropped up under SL or not. So far that's the only instance of this popping up with that issue. I don't believe I've ever seen it say it needed to access the System keychain before. Another oddity to this is I can open up Keychain Access and click on unlock the System keychain which then asks you for an administrator password, I enter it and it unlocks with no issue. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
John

Sometimes the Keychain just gets a bit "wonky." The simplest resolve, in most cases, is to delete all entries with the Kind of "AirPort base station password" and "AirPort network password" in the Keychain using the Keychain Access utility.

OS X keeps asking for System keychain password in order to do 802.1X authentication

In order to join a corporate WLAN that uses WPA2 with 802.1X / EAP-TLS, I added the company's root certificate to the System keychain and set the trust level to always trust this certificate. I then added the client certificate that was issued for my computer. I set the trust level to always trust this certificate as well. Finally, I added the WLAN network, choosing Security: WPA2 Enterprise, Mode: EAP-TLS, Identity: the newly added client certificate, and username: the domain name of my computer. This setup works - I can connect to the WLAN network.
My problem is that the system always asks me for the System keychain password before the WLAN connection can be established. This seems to be during the 802.1X authentication phase. What do I need to change so that this is not required? Or how can I at least find out which System keychain item it is that cannot be accessed without the password?
Im using a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.10.1, but I also had the problem back on 10.9.
If I remember correctly it started whenI received a new client certificate in the summer. But I am not able to say what I might have done differently with the old certificate so that the password was not required back then.

i'm having the same problem at home. i had problems with my keychain before, because i deleted the system keychain. i recently learned how to replace it, which worked. however, my computer is not remembering the password to my home wireless connection. even when i put the computer to sleep and wake it, it becomes disconnected and never automatically re-connects. i have to again select my network and then re-enter the password, every time. how do i fix this ?
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"Dashboard Advisory" in Keychains/System Keychain?

I've just noticed something in Keychains, System Keychain, called +Dashboard Advisory+, issued by +Dashboard Advisory CA+. It reads, +Expires: Tuesday, April 29,2036 2:09 PM America/New York.+
*Below that in red there is: +This certificate was signed by an unknown authority+*
(I also have X509Anchors in Keychains. But there, in green, unlike the Dashboard Advisory, it is, more reassuringly, written, +this certificate is valid+)
Can anyone tell me, please, what this is and if it is legitimate?
(A short Google search seems to turn up something about a Daemon phoning home to Apple re. Dashboard Widgets (installed after the 10.4.7 Update), but I'm not sure this is what I have, and I certainly don't understand why, then, it was "signed by an unknown authority."
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... and now it's all ok?? ... or are you getting what I am getting ?
-i.e. .... loads of different applications complaining that =this or that certificate is invalid etc - even if you change the trust settings !!!! $&^&( aaarghhhhh)
I am cross enough to join you at the wall down there for a spot of head butting that wall !!
I think you are just about to suffer the issue I am - guess what ... some of those apple certificates have just gone out of date today/yesterday .........
can we download some new ones from...... now lets see....... ummmmm .... hey APPLE !! can you send us some in date ones in an 'update' (good name for it really)
still cross, in london, tired now too as 12:48 in morning/night whatever, big long day ahead tomorrow to
I have also posted about this in another thread - BDAqua has been trying to help me (thanks) but I am trawling around these other threads in the vain hope that one of them will contain the secret 'fix'
hows the head WZZZ ??!!
Best regards
Andy

Keychain: 'System' keychain? 'System Roots'? What?

I've considered using Keychain Access for the first real time, as I'm tired of using the same unsafe password everywhere. At work we had security issue and I started collecting and changing each password, and logging them on a sheet securely stored in a safe. It's not that important anyway.
However here I'm on a Mac and I wanted to give security a try...
First I fired up Keychain Access and found 3 keychains in the list, being: login, System and System Roots. I understand that login is tied with my login password and will unlock each time I log in.
However, I have no clue about the 2 other keychains, and wonder if they even need to be here. As I'm planning a nice clean start, I was wondered if I could just erase those? I thought that if something needed my password, I'd simply feed it, since I'm aware of all the existing password on this mac; it has only be my own.
So... what is the un-signed or un-trusted certificates I've found under the 'System' keychain?
And the whole lot of certificates (only certificates this time) I've found under 'System Roots'?
Can I clear these? I remember having created no certificates at all, and the names or text in these certificates does not mean anything to me, nor sound a bell.
Thank you if you can be of any help
Alex

I've been looking at the Kechain access help. So far I'm a bit lost between terms and nouns, but it's not so bad.
Thanks for the info.
Any more details about these?

In my Macbook Pro, on a few occassions, the apple menu bar blacks out. its displayed as a negative image. The desktop wallpaper get greyed out and i get a blank screen as wallpaper. No idea why this happens. I reset the system and issue gets resolved.

In my Macbook Pro, on a few occassions, the apple menu bar blacks out. its displayed as a negative image. The desktop wallpaper get greyed out and i get a blank screen as wallpaper. No idea why this happens. I reset the system and issue gets resolved.

AshwinVC wrote:
I reset the system and issue gets resolved.
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Keychain error -25299 occurred while creating a System Keychain entry for t

Keychain error -25299 occurred while creating a System Keychain entry for the username “Angela Rosario” and URL “afp://Angela%[email protected]/Data”.
I keep getting the error above every time I try to set up my time capsule
Could use some help?
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How do I go about setting up my new wireless all-in-one Epson XP-215 printer to my MacBook Pro? The system is not automatically detecting the printer ad the furthest I get is "System" keychain user and pswd but I am a new user to Mac.

I am a new user to Mac and trying to set up an Epson XP-215 All-in-One printer without any success. The Mac Book Pro is not recogising the Printer automatically and when following the instructions to add the printer, it gets as far as a display box for teh user and password for "System" Keychain but I am not sure what info to add there...
The printer is meant to have a function calle dAir Print also that is meant to be used for Mac but I cannot figure out any of this! Why would the MacBook Pro not automatically pic up the printer? Please help...

If you have not already done so, you should read the user manual that came w/the printer and/or contact Epson tech support.
Check out the following KB Articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14141 OS X Mavericks: Reset the printing system
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669 Printer and scanner software available for download
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I am running OS X 10.9.1 on a MacBook Air....I had keychain issues that I bumbled my way through - deleted and created a new Keychain....now a box appears pretty regularly, wanting my Keychain login....i enter it and it's accepted and the box disappears.

Help..!! I'm running OS X 10.9.1 on a MacBook Air. I had keychain issues with passwords etc and bumbled my way out of it by deleting the current keychain and creating a new one with a new log-in (yes, I wrote it down this time!) But now these little boxes appear wanting my log-in ie. calendar, Safari, Outlook) and its annoying....entering the login gets rid of the box but what a pain and I know it's not right.....I know I need to enter somekind of automatic logins to these apps but how do I do that....and go easy on me, I'm not computer savvy.

Did you install the latest driver set for the device? there is a new release on motu.com for mavericks.
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