On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:51 AM, Troy Mello was a little lost: > I enjoyed the recent discussion about password security, but I am a > little lost about the "keychain." What is it exactly? Is this > something I can access or modify?
The keychain is a built-in utility for storing passwords and other secret information. Every user has a keychain file. You can find yours in your Library/Keychains folder. When you tell programs such as Web browsers and mail to remember passwords, they're stored in your keychain file. All keychain files are strongly encrypted, meaning you need a password to open them. The password for your default keychain file is your login password and it is opened for you when you log in. This password can be changed to anything you want. To change the password, or edit a keychain file, Apple provides a utility called Keychain Access that lives in Applications/Utilities. | 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>.
