Open Keychain Access on your Mac and go to the Certificates category in your System keychain. Once there, import the rootCA.pem using File Import Items. Double click the imported certificate and change the “When using this certificate:” dropdown to Always Trust in the Trust section. Solve the problem while you turn on your Mac and a pop-up box keeps asking you about the 'Local Items' Keychain1. Go Finder press 'GO'2. Press alt keyboard b.

The “Local Items” keychain is something that you may have the misfortune of running into when changing passwords via an external directory service due to password expiry or a using forgetting their passwords in Mavericks.

I spent some time tackling it when forking ADPassMon to not only update Users passwords not via the pref pane, just through ADPassMon, & then also updating the users keychain password.

Adobe After Effects CC 2019 wants to use the “login” keychain. Please enter the keychain password. Password not working and stuck error message - this is how. The 'Local Items Keychain' is a local repository of passwords and other form data eligible to be synced via iCloud to your other devices running iOS 7 or newer. Where it breaks down is when the login/admin password is changed, and the user does not remember the old password (which is the case in 99.9999% of all password changes.).

Maya 2019 crack. Below are my observations on the new keychain.

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Probably not, but I’m sure you’ve heard of iCloud Keychain, this new “Local Items” keychain appears to be where password items that can be synced via the iCloud Keychain are kept (alongside them residing in the Login Keychain if created on the Mac).

Not exactly.

On a Mac running 10.9, open Keychain Access. Below the login keychain you should see the “Local Items” Keychain.

If you click the “Local Items” keychain you may see it populated with various password items, if using iCloud Keychain this will also include passwords saved on other devices connected to your iCloud account.

If you navigate to ~/Library/Keychains/ you’ll notice there is a sub folder which is named like: “A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8″

This is actually the Macs UUID, which you can get via the below:

Within this folder you’ll see keychain-2.db, this is the actual “Local Items” keychain itself. It’s an SQLLite DB with contents that are obfuscated via some method.

Again, not exactly.

When a users password changes, if they know their old password then things will be fine. They can update both the login & the “Local Items” keychain passwords either when updating their password via the “Users & Groups” pref pane or if using a network login, they can update via the login window.

I think anyone supporting Macs in an environment with expiring/changing passwords would say the same. This is where the “Local Items” keychain becomes a pain.

When prompted to update a keychains password, the user may click “Update Keychain Password”

This should then give a prompt to unlock the “login” keychain.

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If the user has forgotten the keychain password, they will then receive prompts to unlock the login keychain.

Familiar enough. We use Keychain Minder to then prompt the users to assist with the users updating, unlocking or creating a new login keychain.

Keychain Minder has been a great aide with this familiar issue over the years, & still works if the user knows their old keychain password.

But when trying to create a new keychain, you’ll again be asked for the “Local Items” keychains password:

If the password is not known, (& by now it is likely the user doesn’t now their “Local Items” keychains password), then Keychain Minder will error:

But the pain doesn’t stop there. If you the go back into Keychain Access you’ll notice that there is no longer a login keychain, just the locked “Local Items” keychain.

If the user then tries to save a password in an app like Safari, they’ll be advised that no keychain can be found & asked to create a new one:

The user will then be prompted to create a new keychain:

One more alert will appear advising that this will delete all their saved passwords:

But, almost immediately after which they’ll be asked to unlock the “Local Items” keychain again:

If the user then tries to update their password via the Users & Groups pref pane, this seems to complete but no login keychain is created & the “Local Items” keychain is still locked.

Worse still, if the user the logs out or restarts, they are presenting with the prompt to unlock the “Local Items” keychain upon login:

Sadly, when using the security create-keychain command in on it’s own to create a new keychain the issue persists. (This is probably the same method employed by Keychain Minder to create new keychains).

In attempting to tackle this issue, I came to the conclusion that some daemon (identityservicesd or securityd) was somehow caching the “Local Items” keychain. Unloading & reloading those daemons was not an option as not all companies will allow their users to be Administrators, & felt too much like a hack for me to proceed with. But I did find an Apple kb article, that details how to stop the “Local Items” keychain prompts.

The above helped me to come to a solution in my forked ADPassMon, when launched it can check to see if the login.keychain is locked:

If the users selects “Create New Keychain” they are then prompted to restart:

The below code snippet of from ADPassMon, in order to resolve this issue I am doing the following:

Getting the Macs UUID
Emptying the folder containing the “Local Items” keychain.
Deleting the login.keychain
Restarting so the daemon processes can do what they need at the next login to create new login & local items keychains.

I hope this has been helpful, & please check out ADPassMon.

“Accountsd wants to use the login keychain.” It is a dialogue you have seen on your Mac screen in a small window. It also asks to enter password. As you provide your keychain password, the prompted window will go away. If you see the login keychain window too frequently, your Mac is definitely having a keychain related error. You need to fix this issue by applying our easiest ways to fix accountsd wants to use the login keychain on Mac.

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What is Keychain on Mac?

Keychain is a feature on Mac and iOS that stores user’s personal information and passwords. The Keychain works as a privacy or password manager on Mac Computer. It keeps your password and other login details saved for Apple ID, applications, websites and Email accounts.

Why accountsd wants to use the login keychain

This error is faced by several Mac users, it appears as accountsd wants to use the “login” keychain. It means the accountsd is asking to access the keychain. It is not any virus or malware attack. The accountsd is a part of Accounts Framework. Your Mac computer system is responsible for management of all your accounts & login details in the database.

Causes of the Error: accountsd wants to use the login keychain

The error accountsd wants to use the login keychain can happen because of many reasons. Some users complain that they have faced this error after updating Mac OS Software on their computer. But it is not necessary that everyone who is updating Mac OS will get the same error. Here we provide some basic reasons that may lead to the error called accountsd wants to use the login keychain.

Keychain Login Issue:

There is Keychain Login problem on your Mac. You may not know but the error accountsd wants to use the login keychain is the indication. Either your old keychain password is lost or you are accidentally logged out of keychain.

Keychain gets Locked:

When Auto Lock is ON, the Keychain will get locked automatically. When Keychain is unlocked, the accountsd and other services have easy access to keychain. But they ask your consent when the Keychain is locked. That is why you are seeing this message again & again as accountsd wants to use the login keychain on your Mac PC Screen.