Article: A Look at Keychain Access
Here's an important article for all Mac users... Giles Turnbull looks at Keychain Access and asks "Why should you care?"
Introduced in Mac OS 9, Keychain Access is an API and an application designed to provide secure storage for all your sensitive information. It has continued to evolve in Mac OS X, and Giles Turnbull helps you unlock its mysteries.
Password? What password?
Here's a conundrum: last time you switched on your Mac OS X computer, did you have to enter a password before it loaded up your user account and desktop?
No?
Funny, because the computer asked for one. You didn't see that part, nor did you see your computer provide a password for itself--but that is, in effect, what happened.
Your computer comes with a neat collection of security features built-in, but if you have it set up to automatically log you in every time you boot it up, you're bypassing one of the most basic of them. What's more, the security system itself is helping you do it. Weird, huh? So what's going on?
Read more: http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/6388
12/16/2005
