How to manage passwords with Keychain Access

#15 macuser1232

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Posted 24 November 2012 - 12:57 PM

My keychain looked a lot like this. I was wondering what the "ids" and "public and private keys" were for. I decided to "Reset My Default Keychain" and start over. Now I don't have any the public and private keys anymore as well as the ids Application Passwords. Do I need those keys and Application passwords?

#16 macDG

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Posted 24 November 2012 - 09:37 PM

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Breen said
What did you suppose would happen when you locked your keychain?

Well - I did NOT expect that after I unlocked it and proceeded to use the computer I would continually (every 2-3 min) get interrupted by another process asking for authentication. If this tip was intended to be applied by people that actually USE their computers, I would offer my opinion that it is not helpful. AND - after disabling the lock I STILL get authentication requests after each startup. What does it take to return to the default behavior and get rid of all the authentication interruptions?

#17 dspark76

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 06:15 PM

Seriously? When did Bill Gates start working for Apple?

How do you just turn all of this off?

#18 magdalenanyc

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Posted 15 April 2013 - 06:21 AM

Thank you so much for the info. I have few dozens of accounts and recently I was getting lost with all the passwords. Your article saved me a lot of time. For all the other lost souls: on mac activate your key chain and the auto fill option under Safari preferences, and than make sure that all the boxes are checked. Your life become so much easier.