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Level: Beginner, Macintosh, Version: FM 8 or later

Keychain Mitigation

September 3, 2011February 10, 2014 Kevin Frank

Recently I developed a system where the client wanted each user to only be able to see his or her own entries, and thanks to Custom Menus, some judicious scripting, and a bit of trial and error, this was accomplished.

I was feeling rather pleased with myself when the client asked, “What about the Keychain?” Well, what indeed? The Macintosh OS has a feature called the Keychain that “helpfully” offers to remember login credentials so that users don’t have to repeatedly type them in.

So imagine a situation where User A has instructed the Keychain to remember login credentials. What happens if User B gains access to User A’s computer, and opens the database? That’s what the client was wondering… actually, he knew what would happen (User B would gain access to User A’s entries). The question he was really asking was, “What are you going to do about it?”

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