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Chapter 6 –
Future Guidance
Figure 34: Mail Keychain Items Access Control Settings
Keychain 2: Moderately accessed credentials (e.g. database access)
This keychain is designed to protect credentials that are accessed frequently and
automatically whenever a user is accessing a particular application that needs a
credential from a keychain. An example of this might be a database that requires
credentials for every query. In this situation, the desired behavior entails
authentication of the keychain password at the beginning of a session, and re-
authentication on a periodic basis (e.g. every 15 minutes) rather than for every query.
1. Start the Keychain Access application.
2. Select New keychain from the File menu.
3. Select a location for the new keychain.
4. Type a name for the new keychain in the Save As box and click on Create.
For this example, the name of the new keychain is “database_keychain”.
5. Select a new password for the keychain and enter it in the window that
appears on the screen. Use the password assistant (the “i” button) to check
the strength of the password.
6. Select Change Settings for keychain “database_keychain”… from the Edit
menu.