Disable Keychain access prompt?

Question

Seems like whenever i want to do something online, I get the keychain access popups, I don't know what my password is, so how can i get these to stop or reset them? thanks for any help

Answer 1

I'm assuming you're using Mac OS X. Keychain access stores login items like login names and passwords for you so you don't have to enter them every time you visit a site (like cookies do in Windows). Just click Allow or Deny when it asks for keychain access for a site (allow will fetch info from the keychain and input it automatically for you). If you've already stored information in the keychain before or you've already click Deny and it keeps popping up anyway, you can try repairing it.

If you have 10.1 or 10.2, make sure you have this update: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/morein... Double-click the DMG and drag the Keychain First Aid application into your Applications/Utilities folder and

then double-click to run it. If you have 10.3 or later, it is built into the Keychain Access application under Applications/Utilities. Double-click it, then when it opens click the Keychain Access menu and click Keychain First Aid (it might located somewhere else in 10.3 and 10.4, I'm using Leopard so I can't say for sure).

Either way, once you have it open enter your username and password, select Verify, and click Start. If any errors show up, select Repair and click Start. If that doesn't resolve your problem you could always try deleting your current keychain and letting the system create a new one. Go to Library/Keychains and delete anything ending in .keychain. Then go to Users/You/Library/Keychains and do the same. You'll have to enter your password in order to delete it and it will delete any saved passwords you have, but it should fix any problems you're having.

If you don't know your user account password then I can only assume you bought the Mac used and are using someone else's account, which is never a good idea. You should have gotten the OS X install discs with it when you bought it (if not you'll have to buy a set). Back up anything that's on the machine right now that you want to keep (songs, pictures, documents, etc.). Then put the install disc in and do an Erase and Install. Whenever possible you should re-download the DMG or PKG files for any applications you want to keep and install them that way, but if that's not an option you can just put them on a flash drive or external drive.