something that's interesting -- if I adjust the first list-keychain -s command to remove the -d user and otherwise leave it the same, the echo for list-keychain still returns the same result: - security list-keychains -s "$KEYCHAIN_PATH" "/Users/######/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db" "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" $ echo $(security list-keychain) "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain"

$ echo $(security list-keychain) "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" $ echo $(security list-keychain -d user) "/Users/#######/####.keychain" "/Users/#######/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db" "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" ####.keychain is the $KEYCHAIN_PATH variable from the script.