Local Items keychain continually re-prompting for password
I had a user yesterday that kept on getting prompts to have his "Local Items" keychain unlocked. I have seen issues with the "Login" keychain before; typically when a user forgets their password for Active Directory and we have to reset it. That is rectified by opening KeyChain access and then deleting the Login keychain, followed by a log off / log on sequence at which point a prompt for creating a new Login keychain should be received. The Local Items keychain, however, does not allow one to delete it from KeyChain access. So, here is what one must do:
1.) Open up Terminal.app under the user who is having the issues
2.) cd ~/Library/Keychains
3.) list current items with the ls command
4.) you should see an entry starting with something like Axxxxxx; basically, A with a large number/character string following it
5.) enter rm -Rf Axxxx/
***One easy way to enter the full directory path is just to type rm -Rf A and then hit the tab key. Tab completion will kick in and, if there is only one item beginning with A, then it should autocomplete the rest of the entry for you
6.) now hit enter to complete the command and immediately reboot
This should take care of the issue as the Local Items keychain will be recreated upon logging back in as said user.
1.) Open up Terminal.app under the user who is having the issues
2.) cd ~/Library/Keychains
3.) list current items with the ls command
4.) you should see an entry starting with something like Axxxxxx; basically, A with a large number/character string following it
5.) enter rm -Rf Axxxx/
***One easy way to enter the full directory path is just to type rm -Rf A and then hit the tab key. Tab completion will kick in and, if there is only one item beginning with A, then it should autocomplete the rest of the entry for you
6.) now hit enter to complete the command and immediately reboot
This should take care of the issue as the Local Items keychain will be recreated upon logging back in as said user.
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