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>.
