Keychain says incorrect password on custom macos images

[PrashantRaj18198]

Running this on a custom macos runner.

$ security unlock-keychain -p secret
security: SecKeychainUnlock <NULL>: The user name or passphrase you entered is not correct.

Running this on github's macos runner

$ security unlock-keychain -p secret

is successful

the password (-p) can be anything on github's macos runner and it'll be accepted.

Do I need to configure anything for keychain to work?

[PrashantRaj18198]

For anyone facing this issue, the issue was that github runner needs to be run using a user LaunchAgent (path ~/Library/LaunchAgents/, I had it configured to run as system LaunchDaemon (path /Library/LaunchDaemons instead.

Configuring as system daemon led to permissions issue with the user. Also the default keychain had changed to System.keychain-db instead of the login.keychain-db