I don't use them but the theory is that you store all your screen name and password pairs in a master keychain. Then you use one screen name and password to unlock all your other passwords. So the idea is that you only need to remember that one password and the keychain will supply all the other passwords when needed. As I said, I don't use it but I suspect it does some kind of autocomplete on forms in the appropriate places.
CB Donna Goodin wrote: > Hello all, > > Sorry if this is a dumb newbie question, but what are keychains > anyway? I've seen references to them, but I don't understand what they > are or how they work. > TIA, > Donna > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: Dr.Khalid <dr.k...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:42 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) > > ***Hi!* > ** > *How can I check the account pain and change the password from there ? > BTW, I'm still new to the world of Mac and VoiceOver -- however, I'm > enjoying this new world so much ..* > ** > *Best* > *Khalid* > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Jonathan C. Cohn <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com> > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:05 PM > *Subject:* Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) > > Ah, the problem of the automatic login. You could boot with the > Leopard disk and reset his password, but that will probably lock > him out of all his keychains. Check the accounts pane, and see if > you can change his password there. > > Also, it is well advised for security reasons, to not use the > Administrator login created at system startup for day to day > activities. It adds a additional layer of security if any trojan > horse or other malware needs to skip to a administrative login in > order to get full access to the machine's root / full access. > > Jonathan > On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:52 PM, Dr.Khalid wrote: > >> ***Hi All!* >> ** >> *I'm trying to update my friend MacBook Pro from v 105.5 to >> 10.5.8. I pressed VO-M, then I chose the software update. It says >> there are 9 updates. I tried several times to install the >> updates, or some of the updates, but each time the updater ask me >> for a username and password. I asked my friend, and he told me he >> doesn't have any password in his machine. I wonder, what I should >> do? How can I pass this password thing? I should note though that >> when I press OK and leave the password field empty, the updater >> doesn't accept this, and will say either the username or password >> is wrong.* >> ** >> *TIA* >> *Khalid* >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
