Of course it's possible to blow away the whole OS but it would be dumb to do that, unnecessary. Just call Apple Support and have them walk you through overriding and resetting the keychain password. I know I've had to do it at some time or another, but I can't remember the details just at the moment.
If you don't have anything in your account just yet, one way to fix the problem is to create another administrator account, log out of your present one, log into the new one, and delete the old account. It's very, VERY rarely necessary to wipe a disk and start over with OS X. Godfrey > On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:26 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been so busy I haven't had time to do anything with the Mac mini I > acquired recently. And because I didn't write it down, I forgot the > [BLEEPIN'] password. > > I was able to to reset the password using my Apple ID (which I did have > written down & fortunately the paper was still in the box waiting to be > shredded). > > But *NOW* every time I try to login I get a prompt: > > Mac OS X wants to use the "Local Items" Keychain. > Please enter the keychain password. > > Nothing I've tried works & I don't even remember setting a keychain > password. It's not my Apple ID or my Apple ID password. > > I'm able to cancel & it logs me in, but it's REALLY annoying. > > I haven't yet installed any software other than the free upgrade to OS X > Mavericks. > > This wouldn't be a problem with Windoze, because at this point I'd just > run FDISK & blow the whole thing away & reinstall from scratch. Is that > possible with the Mac? > > I did make that 8GB bootable USB stick when I was upgrading to OS X > Mavericks. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
