Firefox Wants To Sign Using Key Privatekey In Your Keychain

[Ronald Gruzinsky]

Youmay be prompted with messages such as 'codesign wants to access key "access" in your keychain'. To resolve this, you should set the related key's Keychain Access Control setting to "Always Allow":

Hi dpolsky, Firefox itself is not using the keychain as far as I know. It might be a normal extension that is not working properly or even malware. First thing I'd suggest is disabling add-ons and turning them on one by one to find out which one is causing the issue. If that still doesn't solve the problem, try reseting Firefox: Click on "Help" in the menu bar and select "Reset Firefox".

It is caused by my LastPass add on. When I disabled it, the keychain request went away; when I enabled it again, the request returned. I guess the "lp" in "lpsafari" stands for LastPass? In any event, am I correct to assume that this is a problem LastPass has to rectify rather than Firefox? Thanks for your help.

For example, logging into this forum asked to access the key chain when I first got to the page before filling in the login fields. After the fields were filled in, and I clicked the Login button, Firefox asked again to access the key chain.

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

Thanks for the info. This lead me to realize that the connection between Firefox and the keychain was with an add-on I had installed called Keychain Services Integration 1.1.3 by Julian Fitzell. Before seeing this in my Extensions, I was thinking that access to the KeyChain was built in to Firefox.

Mozilla started cryptographically signing their binaries in FF13, which in theory is great for us (you'll no longer get prompted to allow every time you upgrade) but unfortunately they did it in a way that's not compatible with OS 10.6. We've identified the problem and a solution and I'm hoping they're going to be able to get the fix in in time for FF14. Unfortunately there's little more we can do until they do so.

If you feel like getting your hands a bit dirty, there is a work around involving resigning the binary yourself - instructions are at the above link. Otherwise, just roll back to FF12 and wait for them to the fix the problem.

I'm trying to learn to load apps on my iPhone from Xcode. When I do I keep getting "Codesign wants to access key "access" in your keychain, I put I my login password but it keeps popping up over and over. I've tried my computer login so many times, apple account password, and many others.

One or More dialogs opened and positioned in the same dialog, repeat step 1 until all dialogs closed. (So you thought yourpassword wrong but repeat "Always Allow" with your Mac loginpassword tricky part :) )

I encountered this running a brand new project. Neither the Allow or Always Allow button seemed to work, however it wasn't giving me the 'incorrect password' shaking feedback. What was happening was that there were multiple dialog boxes all in the same position, so as I entered a password and clicked Allow nothing changed visually. I ended up having at least 3 dialogs all stacked up on each other, which I only discovered when I tried dragging the dialog. Entering passwords into each of them let my project finish building.

So thought to add my thoughts here as none of the above worked for me. Though the solution was a combination of above answers but no one mentioned to add the developer certificate to keychain under the section

The same dialog asking for the KeyChain password has 3 buttons. Most likely the wanted password is that for logging in to your Mac. If you press "Allow" it only works for some tiny aspect and will ask again, which is very puzzling. You need to press "Always Allow". The verification team at Apple is very weak, they need some 'normal' developers in the design team for the chain of events to get an app in the app store. Normal developers have very sketchy ideas about KeyChains and Certificates and Profiles.

try separating all the dialog through out the screen and find the dialog that is working. (ie, maybe only only dialog will accept the password and close. yeah, it may reopen new dialogs anyway. but never mind.)

In my particular case, the dialog box did not have the Always Allow, Allow or Deny options, so I wasn't able to use the above solutions. I had to go to my Keychain Access app, choose the certificate, go to "Access Control" and add Xcode in the apps to Always Allow access. After that, the dialog showed the Always Allow button, which I could use successfully.

What helped me was to enter the incorrect password. After that, when entereing the correct password, new dialogs started to open in different places of the workspace. I had to enter the correct password about 20 times hitting Always allow. Which helped!

Just click on the certificate in the keychain access and change the access permission if you want to avoid entering password at all, else select Always allow and it will prompt probably 4-5 times and it will be done.

The reason it keeps popping up is because you installed the certificate in the system location, move it to the login location and it will ask you once and enter your password and click on always allow.

I was also having the problem while running the carthage script in the build phase. (Xcode 9)I get that dialog for each and every framework I had added plus the app itself. You can see a very dark shadow growing.I could bypass it by entering the password every time and hitting "Always Allow".

I had the same problem: while building iOS release for Flutter project, was asked for keychain password, entered Apple ID password for developer account, no luck.Finally succeeded by entering password for computer I was using (which was an on-line mac server).Hope that helps.

For me XCode had expired my login...XCode-Preferences - saw it had logged me out, loged back in. Only came up with this solution by chance thanks to a related post here that took me to preferences in XCode !

dialogs open on each other some of them should confirm first , if you enter password many times and it dosen't work just drag a dialog and see if there is any other dialogs under it and confirm them. it works for me

Annoyingly, for me it opened up several boxes, so I had to pay attentions that when I clicked always allow for one box, another box, flickered. So had to add all the passwords and clicks in an ordered fashion according to the mac.then I got it to work.

I wanted to sign a document using the sign/signature tool but for whatever reason, I ended creating a digital signature by mistake now I can't send the email without attaching a private key. I needed to remove this ASAP.

When you open a new email, you can simply deactivate this digital encrypted signing by clicking on the little blue encircled checkmark in the new mail editor window. If you do this, it will stay unchecked for all subsequent emails. So no need to manually delete digital certificates from the keychain.

Thank you Jelle5C10, simple and elegant. I somehow created a monster without intending to, and all attempts to send some urgent documents failed until I found your solution. Phew! (I am on Monterey 12.0.1). Please accept a large virtual bouquet of flowers :bouquet:

Huge thanks Jelle5C10! It solved my problem also. Who would have known if it wasnt for clever heads like you The encircled check mark is to the far right in the Subject line. untick it and problem is solved. Big Sur 11.7

I have a MacBook with Monterey OS that is enrolled through Intune. For some reason when the user attempts to access SharePoint online through Google Chrome she receives a prompt "Google Chrome wants to sign using key "Microsoft Workplace Join Key" in your keychain. Even if she selects Always Allow, she gets prompted again.

It comes from the keychain ACL for Microsoft Workplace Joinkey. By default, all microsoft apps can access it (com.microsoft and Microsoft portal). Obviously here Chrome, is used to access to Sharepoint. It might be the same for other apps used to enter a microsoft site.

Having a big issue here with one of my user's mac devices. So, it keeps coming up on my CTO's laptop where every time he tries to access an O365 product it wants a password. Problem is none of the passwords work for this. He just got this device and ran it through Jamf from OOBE and everything else is accessible. We even installed Edge and it works through there, but the preferred browser is Chrome.

@santoroj Make sure the user is clicking "Always Allow" after entering their password. If they click Allow Chrome will prompt _every_ time it needs to access the certificate and that will happen often enough that it looks like the password was rejected.

@santoroj Do you mean that you can't type in the entry field for the password, or that it's not accepting the user's login password? If they are not clicking "Always Allow" it will look like the password wasn't accepted because the prompt is being repeated so quickly. If they _are_ clicking "Always Allow" and it's not accepting their login password you'll need to determine why the password for the user's login keychain doesn't match the password they use to log in and fix that.

If they are have them open the Keychain Access app (if they're running macOS Sonoma they may be offered the option to use System Settings instead, have them choose Keychain Access). In Keychain Access select the login keychain then My Certificates to verify the certificate can be accessed. If it's working there but not in Chrome I don't have any other suggestions for you.

@sdagley Yes, always allow is the option being used. They are on Sonoma, but because the password is not taking, there is no prompt to accept anything past entering the password and hitting "Always Allow". Thank you for your inputs, maybe someone else in the forum has been experiencing the issue.

@santoroj My suggestion about opening Keychain Access isn't something you'd do after the password prompt in Chrome, just open the Keychain Access app. It will allow you to determine if the user's login keychain isn't being unlocked when the user logs in to the Mac because the login keychain password isn't in sync with the Mac's password.

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