A note of caution: If you create an AppleScript application, or use
an AppleScript based program (such as KeychainUnlocker) to open your
Keychain at boot time (by having the application or application alias
in the Startup Items folder), your Keychain password will be
accessible in plain text to anyone who has access to your computer.
In general, this in not a good thing to do. :)
Non-AppleScript programs such as Keychain AutoUnlock may also be
vulnerable to snooping.
Since you can have more than one Keychain active on your system, you
might consider having multiple Keychains and starting up a Keychain
with just the items that you need at boot time, such as servers. If
you use an AppleScript applet such as Keychain Unlocker, make sure
that you follow the instructions and save it as a Run Only applet,
which helps a *little* as a precaution against casual snooping.
Tony
At 4:36 AM -0700 7/30/2000, Jarrod Wyrick wrote:
>Mikael,
>You are right. Keychain is fully scriptable. In the "Scripting additions"
>folder you will find KeyChain scripting. For more information go to
>http://til.info.apple.com/ and search for "keychain"
>
>
>in addition,
>
>Third party utilities. There are a couple of third party shareware/freeware
>utilities which will auto-unlock the keychain on startup before the volumes
>mount. These include
>
>
>Keychain Unlocker
>
>http://www.carnation-software.com/carnation/KeychainUnlocker.html
>
>Keychain AutoUnlock
>http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ChaoticSoftware/ProductPages/KeyChainAutoUnlo
>ck.html
>
>
>I hope this information is helpful,
>Jarrod
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>-Anonymous
>
>
>> From: Mikael Hansen <mikaelh@uclink.berkeley.edu>
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:03:51 -0700
>> To: magnet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>> Subject: Re: [MAGNet] Mac OS 9: auto unlock keychain on boot?
>>
>> At 09:56 -0700 7/31/2000, Sara Leavitt wrote:
>>
>>> Is their a way to have the keychain auto unlock at boot up on Mac OS 9?
>>
>> I don't know if there is a way to do it, apart from writing a script
>> or using a utility, which can simulate keys being pressed by the user.
>>
>> --
>> Mikael Hansen <mailto:mikaelh@uclink.berkeley.edu>
>> Programmer/Analyst, Letters & Science Computer Resources, UC Berkeley
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