On: OSX password script for everyone to know

[jtokoph]

You may want to setup autolocking:

1. Launch "Keychain Access".

2. Right click on "login" keychain.

3. Click "Change Settings for Keychain 'login'".

4. Check the "Lock after:" box.

5. Change the minutes of activity to whatever you want.

You have the option of auto-locking after zero minutes of inactivity.

[ammmir → jtokoph]

or using command line (lock default keychain on sleep and after 30 min):

  $ security set-keychain-settings -lut 1800

[tlrobinson → jtokoph]

I tried this, and quickly got annoyed with having to enter my password every time iCal tried to sync.

It would be better if you could set it to require a password every time a previously unauthorized app requests access to a Keychain item.

[draebek → tlrobinson]

I think I had this same problem with Mail.app. I "solved" it by creating a separate keychain that just locks on sleep, but doesn't timeout, and moving my Mail passwords into that keychain. Presumably the same thing would work for iCal.

[mkmk → jtokoph]

Just in case anybody else doesn't see the 'login' keychain: the square button with a triangle in the bottom left corner shows and hides an additional list of keychains

[eblume → jtokoph]

I was about 5 minutes in to the docs to set up a quicksilver task to do this - thanks for helping me avoid re-inventing the wheel. Yours was the better 'hack'. ;)