UPDATE: My fork of ADPassMon has now been merged with main & many changes have been made, for more information follow this link.

The “Local Items” keychain is something that you may have the misfortune of running into when changing passwords via an external directory service due to password expiry or a using forgetting their passwords in Mavericks.
I spent some time tackling it when forking ADPassMon to not only update Users passwords not via the pref pane, just through ADPassMon, & then also updating the users keychain password.
Below are my observations on the new keychain.
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