Keychain Update Prompt Missing After Password Change on macOS 15.0.1

I've encountered an issue with the keychain on macOS 15.0.1.

When an admin account changes the password for a non-admin local account, the system should prompt to unlock the login keychain at the next login, giving the user an opportunity to update the keychain password. However, when I attempted to change a local account password using an admin account through system configuration on macOS 15.0.1, the system did not show such a prompt. Instead, it directly created a new login keychain. In the keychain directory, I could see that the old keychain had been renamed to login_rename_X.keychain-db. Additionally, this operation caused the Touch ID and passwords saved in the keychain to be cleared.

Does anyone know how to handle this issue so that the local account is prompted to update the keychain password during login?

Is this new in macOS 15? Or are you seeing the same behaviour in macOS 14?

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Keychain Update Prompt Missing After Password Change on macOS 15.0.1
 
 
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