Hi, I think that you might be confusing keychains. There is the iCloud keychain which is used for WiFi access points, web passwords etc, and there is your local Mac keychain. If it is asking for the Keychain at login like that, it is probably the local keychain password that it is asking for. In this situation, it is the password of the Admin user on your machine. In some cases, this does get corrupt, and it can usually easily be fixed by either going into the Keychain Utility in your Utilities folder or simply changing your password from within the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences. You shouldn't need to do any clean install to remedy this.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 18, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > In the last two days I have had to do a clean install of my Mac again even > though I did it last week. > > What happened was that I shut my Mac down at the beginning of this week as I > went away and didn't want anyone to get hold of the information in case there > was a break-in. So I had passworded all the information. > > On Thursday of this week, I got back and restarted the Mac. I was prompted > for my pass word which I put in. > > I was then asked for the keychain password as I had approved it from my I > phone when I originally put it in. So the Mac did not like it. So when I > finally got to the finder as I had reset my keychain, I was continually asked > for my key chain and thus I had to re-install twice because the first time > the information had not deleted properly. > > So my problem is, if I have an issue that I am asked for a keychain again as > I have approved it from my I phone, I may have the same problem again. I > don't like giving the keychain a passcode because I'm texted a very > complicated password to unlock it. There is no option in the Mac key chain to > get your device approved from another device when your Mac is asking for its > keychain. So what do people do on this list if they are asked for their Mac > keychain when they switch their Macs on if they want to approve it from their > I phone as I can see no option? > > Sorry about a long message but this was the only way to explain. At least I > have had practice doing a Clean install, perhaps a silver lining! > > Kawal. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
