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None of the Apple Discussions or Apple Help docs have been able to give me info that stops the "Messages Agent wants to use keychain" (and subsequent similar requests), whenever I login. There's a lot of fixes out there, but none of them have worked, so I'm asking the smart people here if they have any further suggestions.

I've tried these, among others:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5747949
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5434828?tstart=0
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1631

Thanks for any help you can offer.

??? http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

Thank you MLC, but I was hoping for a solution that didn't cost $40 ...anyone?

[i saw that MLC ]

At some point it may be worth that much. Somehow in trying to figure this out I'm now getting more of these requests. And to make matters worse, some of the keychain requests have one password and some have another. It's maddening. ....not just for me apparently. there's a lot of people in apple discussions with the issue.

Well, here's the thing - Yeah, $40 is a lot to solve a software problem in a single app, but that's not what Little Snitch does. It's solves the problem of unwanted connections in ALL your apps, including the OS. So if you DON'T know who's calling home and they are, then they could be a problem in the future.

And I like to see what my network traffic is doing. At least during uploads and downloads, but in particular, when I'm not looking, and that's also where the app excels.

I don't leave home (virtually) without it.

"Messages Agent wants to use keychain" (and subsequent similar requests), whenever I login

I got a flurry of those when I went to OS 10.9.5 and did a clean install on my new SSD.

Every one of them was something ancient that had to be purged from my Mac. The worst offender was AOL Messenger which took quite a bit of sleuthing before I purged the last of it from some my wife's and daughters' old OS 9 backups sitting in a forgotten folder in Documents.

Once I trashed all of the offending files, the problem was gone. I don't think that Lil Snitch could have helped–but then, I don't know the program that well.

Those folders are now sitting on my G4 where they belong and gone from my iMac. If my family needs that data, it's there to be converted.

I think I figured it out. When I was setting up the newer Mac, I changed the admin password to something simple, to make installing things easier. Apparently some of the apps didn't like that. When I changed the admin password back to my original password the requests stopped. I'd still like to have the ability to use a different admin password, but for now I'm set.

Thanks for your help!

When I changed the admin password back to my original password the requests stopped. I'd still like to have the ability to use a different admin password, but for now I'm set.

I never thought of that. That makes sense. None of my stuff set that off, only old apps from backups.

I think that IOS 10.6 was the last OS that allowed for an easy password change. Last I checked, there were different ways on Mavericks involving boot restore and Terminal.