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Re: How to turn off Keychain? - M A V I C - 04-10-2008
[quote MacMagus]> I think if my clients heard I was using, for example 1Password, they'd probably fire me.
I agree.
It's an Input Manager. Yikes!
(I use it at work.)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how it works... I know it can manage multiple logins and all that... but doesn't it store all that info behind "one password"?
Re: How to turn off Keychain? - MacMagus - 04-11-2008
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding how it works... I know it can manage multiple logins and all
> that... but doesn't it store all that info behind "one password"?
It does a whole lot.
It stores a master password in the keychain. Periodically, that password has to be re-entered to authorize 1Password. When it's authorized, you can use it as a shortcut to login to secure web pages. Just right-click in one of the login fields to select the contextual menu item in your browser or click on the icon in your toolbar.
You can set it to automatically remember all of your logins or to pop up an alert to ask you what to do when it detects that you're logging into a new site or entering data in a new form.
It can be used to save and restore form information. It can intelligently fill in new forms and choose random secure passwords of some preset strength for you.
It also has a feature for iPhone users where it can save encrypted notes as Safari bookmarks and Palm users can sync encrypted notes to their wallet. I haven't tried the encrypted notes yet.
My understanding is that while it can work in Firefox as a normal plugin, they had to make it an input manager in order for it to work in Safari. Which sucks for many reasons, not the least of which is that they have to release a new version whenever Apple updates Safari or tweaks some security feature or another.
Re: How to turn off Keychain? - Alison - 08-19-2013
I don't know or care about all of the useful things that keychain might be doing for me in the background, but I agree with Spiff. I know all the passwords for my important stuff, and I'd rather use the "forgot password" functions for stuff I don't need to access frequently. For example, I had to create a login to post this. I may never look at this site again. I don't need or want keychain storing my password for this site.
If someone gets onto my computer, I don't want that meaning they have carte blanche access to everything on my keychain, like my email, my work website login, my bank login, etc.
What I want to turn off is the default setting that makes it keep assuming I want it to store passwords. I don't want to have to stay constantly vigilant, remembering to uncheck that box every time I log in to something (and also have to regularly go in there and erase my passwords out of keychain when I accidentally forget to uncheck the box).
I had managed to fix this on my old computer, but I just got a new one, complete with frustrating changes to get used to, and one of them is the fact that keychain is back to defaulting with the "save password" box checked. I realize I'm responding to this thread significantly after the original posting, but I hope someone can help me. I'm now on OS 10.8.4.