John Carter's been at it again: figuring it out and then showing us. Here's his information on how to deal with keychain on Mavericks:
Setting up the Keychain Access to share between devices got to be a bit of a chore today. I had to go online to resolve a serious problem.
A prompt popped up asking me for the keychain 'Local Items' password, and then it wouldn’t accept anything I put in.
The solution is (found online
here) :
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.
- Open 'Keychain Access' Application
- Select the 'login' keychain from the keychains list
- Click the lock at the top to lock the login keychain
- Click the lock again to unlock the login keychain
5. After entering your login keychain password you should be presented with a dialog:
6. Clicking the reset button will re-sync your login.keychain password with the iCloud keychain password.
If everything from the above fails for whatever reason the last resort you can do the following:
- Open terminal
- cd ~/Library/Keychains
- ls
- When you 'ls' here you will see a folder that contains a bunch of random number liks so:
- 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464 (this number is unique on each system)
- rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
- Reboot
- and when you log back in everything should be back to normal. And that's it. # # #
Thanks, John for your expertise!
