Mac Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples
∟Keychain Access - Password Manager
This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on Keychain Access as the password manager on macOS. Topics include introduction of Keychain Access; locking and unlocking keychains; managing passwords in keychains, avoiding keychain access popup messages.
What Is Keychain Access on macOS
Lock and Unlock Keychains
Manage Passwords Stored in Keychain
"X" App Wants to Use "login" Keychain
Takeaways:
- Keychain Access on macOS acts as a password manager and a certificate manager.
- Keychain Access has 3 default keychains: login, Local Items, System and System Roots.
- "login" keychain stores private keys/certificates and network connection passwords of the current login user.
- "Local Items" keychain stores application passwords and Web pages passwords.
- "System" keychain stores system level private keys/certificates and network connection passwords
- "System Roots" keychain stores trusted Root CA certificates.
- A keychain can be locked and unlocked. The default password is your user password on the macOS.
- You can view any password stored in keychains by clicking the "Show password" field on the "Attribute" tab.
- Unlock "login" keychain unconditionally to avoid unnecessary and repeating keychain access popup messages.
Table of Contents
About This Book
Macintosh OS (Operating System) History
macOS Operating System
macOS File Systems
macOS Network Connections
System and Application Processes
►Keychain Access - Password Manager
Keychain Access - Certificate Manager
Productivity Tools on macOS
Programming Tools on macOS
Apache Web Server on macOS
Develop and Run Java Applications
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