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Autolocking and two keychains
Authored by: betabug on Apr 16, '02 04:13:43PM

As others have pointed out, what you need is to set the keychain to
autolock after a certain amount of time.

Next: Only use the keychain that the system generates for your username
for insecure stuff. (Your POP password probably goes over the wire in
cleartext anyway, so you might as well store it in the keychain and have it delivered
to the mail program.)

Create a second keychain for stuff that you want to keep locked away. Then
only unlock that keychain when you need something and lock imediately afterwards.
That way your more important stuff will never lay around unlocked. Of course you give
that other keychain a different password from your login password.

Also keep in mind, that no really important password should be left written down -
in the keychain or any other file on a computer. The keychain is very good for
low sensitive passwords.

The good part about the keychain is that you can look up a password that you
have to give to a coworker. And you can do that while she is watching over your
shoulder, without exposing any of the other passwords in there.



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