How to turn off Keychain?

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Ok, I've looked here, I've looked on apple, I've looked in the help utility.

I admit it, I'm an idiot. I've got 11 more steps to go.

How do you turn off the keychain in 10.4.11? I've looked and read and looked some more, and can't figure it out.

Nuts

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what exacly are you trying to do? to unlock it? lock it? get rid of it completely? why?

the Application itself is called "Keychain Access" and it is locate in the "Applications -> Utilities" folder. You can delete if you have Admin privileges. But why???

The Kwychains are in "User -> Library -> keychains" (substitute User with your actual User name on that machine). Delete them. (but don't ask me later what is your password for that web site)

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Cool. That's what I think I'm looking for. I know all my passwords and don't want Keychain making me stupid. I know, sounds wierd, but that's me.

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[quote Spiff]I know all my passwords and don't want Keychain making me stupid.
Disabling Keychain will make you feel that way.

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[quote Spiff]I know all my passwords
I remember those days... it was probably 7 or 8 years ago. I host probably ~40 web sites and work on many others. Maybe a total of 100. You've got FTP, remote access, database, site admins... and then test accounts for each, and dev sites for each... probably close to 1000 unique usernames and password combos.

And that's not even getting into email, networking, file serving, encryption... I wouldn't be surprised if I had a couple thousand accounts. Of course, they don't all end up in my keychain. That'd be really dumb.

[MacMagus]

> I know all my passwords and don't want Keychain making me stupid.

Run the Keychain Access app.

Select the login keychain from the panel on the left side.

Select the passwords category.

Click on any of the saved passwords in the panel on the right side.

Choose "Select All" from the Edit menu.

Press the delete key.

Quit the Keychain Access app.

Thereafter, when you get a password dialog, DO NOT check off the little checkbox to remember the password.

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[quote M A V I C]... I wouldn't be surprised if I had a couple thousand accounts. Of course, they don't all end up in my keychain. That'd be really dumb.
why would that be dumb? what better way to manage 1000s of different accounts?

Password1 (which most people like) still uses a keychain. yes, there are probably other apps out there, but keychain is free and most like to be supported in the future. Other companies might go belly-up, but if Apple goes belly-up, we have other things to worry about then

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I memorize usernames and passwords for all my financial sites -- everything else I trust to 1Password/Keychain.

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[quote space-time][quote M A V I C]... I wouldn't be surprised if I had a couple thousand accounts. Of course, they don't all end up in my keychain. That'd be really dumb.
why would that be dumb? what better way to manage 1000s of different accounts?

Password1 (which most people like) still uses a keychain. yes, there are probably other apps out there, but keychain is free and most like to be supported in the future. Other companies might go belly-up, but if Apple goes belly-up, we have other things to worry about then
Depends on what the passwords are for. If the worst thing for you is they're going to log into your MR account, post forbidden material and get you banned for a bit, then there's not as big of a risk. I think if my clients heard I was using, for example 1Password, they'd probably fire me.

[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.)