More trouble, keychain this time.

As above, I can't remember the keychain password for my iMac. It's not the same as the login so I resorted to "reset the password" However, after I did this I just keep getting a dialogue box telling me that:
"com.apple.internetaccounts.xpc wants to use the "login" keychain,
Please enter the keychain password." The box has a locked padlock in the top left corner.

It's been driving me nuts for hours now, so I've resorted to the font of knowledge.

The keychain password SHOULD BE your login/admin password, so already something is not as it should be. Why wasn't it the same?

I've changed my apple id password several times, would that be it ?

View attachment Keychain.pdf Hopefully, this is the pdf of the dialogue box. Not actually the one I described, but another one that came up when I tried to get out of it.

When I've changed my apple password, would / should that have changed the Keychain password too ? Or is that different ?

I got in touch with apple by phone and a nice young lady helped me sort mine out. It seems back to normal now. Thanks for the help.

Pete,

To close the loop, so to speak, could you find the time to tell us what the "nice young lady" advised you and how she got things back to normal? It could help others in the future.

Many thanks

Ian

Yes, at least I'll try to. She didn't take over my computer, but she was able to see my screen after I downloaded an app from apple. She then told me I was most of the way there because I'd got as far as needing to put my iCloud password in to finish it. So: I'd gone via finder>applications>utilities>keychain access and then to preferences in the keychain menu>reset keychain password. I clicked this and that's where I lost it because I didn't know that password. This "nice young lady" told me to put my iCloud password in. After some brain racking (I'm nearly 69 ) I got it and all was fixed. Now, I know there are people older than me that could fly through things like this, but I had a really big bang on the back of my head a few years ago and now I'm a lot cleverer than I used to be. that's what my mates tell me anyway.
Hope I've made this clear enough.

You did fine. Thanks for posting that.

My pleasure.