"Please enter your keychain password"..what is this?

I keep getting this dialogue box popping up asking me for my password. At the bottom, it says "Mac OS X wants to use keychain 'System'". What is this for? When I click on details it says 'Keychain:System.Keychain, then under toolirport.

Please help, Thanks in advance.

As far as I know, it wants your administrator password in order to access the keychain, presumably to access any Airport Express or Extreme base station you have hooked up.

Yes, that is correct. The system is trying to access a stored password but needs you to enter your password before it can access it. Your password is the one you set when set up you account on your mac.

Well, I tried entering the only password I use / used and it does not take it. Still confused.
neye:

Is it the same password you use when you log onto your Mac?

I'm getting the same message every time I restart. I first got the message immediately after upgrading to OS 10.4.2.

I've only ever used one password with my iBook, and it won't take that password. Funny thing is: (1) my password continues to work for other admin tasks (to add new users, change my Windows workgroup name, or lock or unlock certain settings, for some example); and (2) my not being able to supply the password OS X wants doesn't seem to lock me out of doing anything. My iBook is still perfectly functional, other than this weird message at the beginning.

Anyone know what it is?

Here's another forum thread with a few different suggestions for fixing this. Seems it's a common problem that resulted from security updates around late October:

http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/printthread.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&main=355791&type=thread

jjf said:

Here's another forum thread with a few different suggestions for fixing this. Seems it's a common problem that resulted from security updates around late October:

http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/printthread.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&main=355791&type=thread

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Good post...I'll keep tracking this thread. ...and the issue persists...

baggss said:

Is it the same password you use when you log onto your Mac?

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Well, I don't use a password to log into my account. I have three acounts. 1 for me, 1 for my girlfriend, and 1 administrators account for system mods. The two user accounts (me and gf) have no passswords, except the administrators account. There's only one password to access the entire network and anything else.

...problem still persists...

Thanks for all the help....let me know if you turn up anything else....


neye:

I'm still having the problem, too, only today it's started asking for that password every time I open the lid of my iBook (which brings it out of sleep mode).

Any other ideas? Any Mac pro's out there?

(One of the weirdly ironic benefits, if you want to call it that, of using a PC is that problems are so common that whenever you have one, finding a solution is usually not difficult.)

you might have the "require password to wake computer" security feature on. Go to your system prefrences and go to security. Check (or uncheck) that the require password to wake computer is off.

iWonder said:

you might have the "require password to wake computer" security feature on. Go to your system prefrences and go to security. Check (or uncheck) that the require password to wake computer is off.

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I just checked this in System Preferences....and it's unchecked. I just got the dialogue box requesting for my password again.


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