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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The password management system found in MacOS is known as...

The password management system found in MacOS is known as...

  • Keychain
  • Key Ring
  • Key Fob
  • Key Grip 
 


EXPLANATION

Keychains were originally developed in the early 1990s for use with an Apple email system called PowerTalk. The idea was that PowerTalk could communicate with many mail servers and online services, so it would use a keychain file to hold user authentication information within the application to automatically and securely log the user into the variety of services. With the creation and release of Mac OS X in the early 2000s, Keychain became part of the operating system and was used to hold much more information.
 a secure database of a users passwords
-2 default chains: System and System Roots (belong to the OS)
-use Keychain Access utility to create multiple keychains







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