Press the Delete key, then click Delete References.) (If you don't see a Reset My Default keychain button, close the preferences window and select the “login” keychain from the left side of the Keychain Access window.
After you enter your new password (same to the password of your Mac account), Keychain Access creates an empty login keychain with no password. Choose Preferences from the Keychain Access menu (or Cmd,), then click the Reset My Default Keychain button in the preferences window.Open Keychain Access, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.To solve this problem, you have to reset your default keychain. Changing login keychain's password does not help. On macOS El Capitan and Sierra, there is no Keychain Access > Keychain First Aid. It should be caused by changing Mac password using 3rd party software. It has bothered me for several weeks on my new Mac.
This is needed because, as Apple If you change your account's password using your Mac OS X Install disc (or if your network-based account password is changed due to a network admin forcing a password change), your default keychain password (which uses the same initial password as your user account) does not change.īecause of this, you will be prompted to enter a keychain password each time an application requires authentication that your keychain would normally provide.