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- Mac Keeps Asking For Keychain Password For Everything
- Outlook 2011 Mac Keeps Asking For Keychain Password
Symptoms
Choose Preferences from the Keychain Access menu (or Cmd, ), then click the Reset My Default Keychain button in the preferences window. After you enter your new password (same to the password of your Mac account), Keychain Access creates an empty login keychain with no password. Click OK to confirm. Also, it will prompt the authentication abruptly and keeps asking for keychain password. This whole circumstance arises because of Keychain Access. It is a macOS application used to store accounts credential information. Feb 15, 2017 Outlook for Mac 2016 - Keeps asking for password Outlook for Mac 2016. Version 15.30 (170107). Deleted keychain access entry related to my email account and re-entered the password when prompted and checked to remember the password in my keychain. In addition, I confirmed that the password was inputted in the settings under tools, account.
In Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, you are repeatedly prompted for authentication while you're connected to your Office 365 account.
Cause
This issue occurs because of the presence of duplicate tokens in the keychain.
Resolution
To resolve this issue in Outlook 2016 for Mac, install the February 2017 Outlook update (version 15.31.0) from the following Office website:
Workaround
To work around this issue, delete any cached passwords for your account, and also delete any modern authentication tokens from the keychain. To do this, follow these steps.
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Note
Mac Keeps Asking For Keychain Password For Everything
These steps affect all Office applications that use modern authentication.
Outlook 2011 Mac Keeps Asking For Keychain Password
- Quit Outlook and all other Office applications.
- Start Keychain Access by using one of the following methods:
- Select the Finder application, click Utilities on the Go menu, and then double-click Keychain Access.
- In Spotlight Search, type Keychain Access, and then double-click Keychain Access in the search results.
- In the search field in Keychain Access, enter Exchange.
- In the search results, select each item to view the Account that's listed at the top, and then press Delete. Repeat this step to delete all items for your Exchange account.
- In the search field, enter adal.
- Select all items whose type is MicrosoftOffice15_2_Data:ADAL:<GUID>, and then press Delete.
- In the search field, enter office.
- Select the items that are named Microsoft Office Identities Cache 2 and Microsoft Office Identities Settings 2, and then press Delete.
- Quit Keychain Access.NoteWhen you start Outlook, you are prompted to authenticate.