On the same subject :, I have oodles of keychain items, a number of duplicates also. How do I safely remove those extra ones, or better, how do I know which are all those extra ones that make my list stretch from Louisville to St. Mathews? Just you Thawte signed members : Bill is in there 3 times, you twice, Lee 4 times and JF once. And one has no name attached, I guess it waits for me. Now the same goes for Apple with 8 entries, all the other places I have ever shopped etc. What is the procedure in cleaning up the keychain, but leave those i need in order not to get the drop menu asking me whether I want to add this item to my keychain . Marta On Aug 10, 2005, at 11:51, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> Not ignorance at all. If you look in the menu options, you will not > see this option listed, so it is a good question! > > But it is there. You will see it in action when you go to a new web > site and fill in a form that has the username and password fields in > that form. Once you click on the submit button, you will (usually) get > a message from Safari asking you if you want to save this username and > password. Answering in the affirmative will have Safari (or other > modern browsers) save them to the keychain. > > You can see which ones you have accumulated so far in Safari. Open the > Preferences (in the Safari menu) and select the AutoFill tab. You will > see listed 'AutoFill Web Forms:' with several choices, including 'User > names and passwords'. Each one has an edit button next to it. Click on > the edit button for this one and you should see a list of web sites > and usernames. These usernames are saved in Keychain along with the > password. > > Jerry > > p.s. Up above I said this works for modern browsers. In the old days > each browser saved this info internally and privately, making it very > tricky to see the info, much less share it with other browsers. > > On Aug 10, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Michael Robertson wrote: > >> Jerry, >> I am showing my ignorance here, but how do you use the "save to the >> keychain option" from Safari. I am using 10.3.9, and the latest >> Safari version. >> Thanks >> Mike >> On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: >> >> >>> Have you ever been to a web site, signed up for a password, etc. >>> saved it in your browser (using save to the keychain option of >>> course) and then wished that you could use it (the password) with >>> other browsers? >>> >>> No? Well for the sake of discussion, let's say you did. Maybe you >>> use Safari regularly, but took FireFox out for a test browse and >>> signed up for something. And now you want to use that same username >>> and password in Safari (maybe you were at the site that tells you >>> not to begin sentences with the word 'and' except under special >>> circumstances). >>> >>> Open the Keychain Access app (it lives in your Utilities folder). >>> Scroll through the list of keys there and select the one you want to >>> use elsewhere. Now click on the button called Access Control. If you >>> are a Panther user you will have a button called 'Add', Tigger users >>> will see the what should now be familiar; the '+' and '-' buttons >>> for the add and delete functions. Click the add button, you will get >>> a file dialog box opening up that allows you to find the other app >>> (in this case the other browser) that you want to allow to use this >>> password (this key). >>> >>> As always, Use With Caution, YMMV! >>> >>> Jerry >>> >>> ----------------------------------- >>> Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure >>> if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> > > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
