Thanks so very much, Lee. Now I am much more kowledgeable about the keychain, even found my long forgotten administrator password in my system accts with the accompanying butterfly which I had all forgotten about! thanks again! Marta On Wednesday, Jan 28, 2004, at 23:18 America/New_York, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2004, at 9:30 PM, Marta Edie worried: > >> I would like to know how the keychain is encrypted if I have no >> log-in password, nor put an extra password on the chain. ( one person >> = administrator etc, etc. - me ) And : all my preferences in Safari >> and Explorer also have all those usernames and passwords right in >> them. Were I to lock the keychain, would I also have to give this >> password everytime I logged on to a Safari website? > > Right now, your keychain is probably encrypted with your login > password, and it's opened automatically when you log in. If you put > another password on it, you will be asked for that password the first > time a program wants to use your keychain. Then it will be open until > you log out or explicitly close it. > > You can also have more than one keychain file and the different files > can have separate passwords. Use one for notes and the other for your > passwords. Put a special password on the notes file and leave the > other as the default to be opened at login. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
