can't repair keychain

[ccagle]

When I try to verify or repair keychain in Keychain first aid I recieve the following:

Verification started
Checking keychain configuration for Clint xxxxx (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/clint
Error: a required directory (/private/var/tmp) does not exist
Problems were found; you should choose the Repair option to fix them
Verification failed

Repair started
Checking keychain configuration for Clint xxxxx (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/clint
Error: a required directory (/private/var/tmp) does not exist
Failed to create directory /private/var/tmp, reason: Permission denied
Warning: some problems were not fixed
Repair failed

Any ideas are greatly apprecited.

 

[ccagle]

Good news I fixed it.

Error: a required directory (/private/var/tmp) does not exist
Failed to create directory /private/var/tmp, reason: Permission denied

I logged into terminal as root and did the following

chown clint /private/var
chown clint /private/var/tmp

for some reason the owner was set to root and would not allow me access.