Different password for keychain in Mac
what changes should be made to Mac OS X configuration with respect to security. “The only significant change which one have to made is that the different password for my Keychain than for my user account.” That’s a change also make on all of systems. The Keychain allows you to keep internet passwords, notes and SSL certificates in an encrypted store, and synchronize them between different machines with .Mac. So far, so good – of course there is only a single password to unlock all of this information, but it means that you can choose one really good password that you can remember, then use different passwords for all of the websites, mail accounts and so on that you use, which you don’t need to keep in your head (or on a Post-It note) because you can always get them out of the Keychain. The problem with the default Keychain configuration is that this password is synchronized with your login password; whenever you are logged in, the items in your Keychain are unlocked and available to any
application that asks for them. It is simple to fix this: firstly, open the Keychain Access application in /Applications/Utilities. In the Edit menu, choose “Change password for Keychain ‘login’…” and set a new password. Now when an application needs a password out of the Keychain, it has to prompt you for that password; a slight reduction in convenience but with a huge payoff in being able to control when your stored passwords are used. You can also control when the Keychain is automatically locked (so that you get re-prompte0.