[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8

[David Ledger]

>Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:23:15 -0600
>From: net kat <netkat at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [X4U] OK to keep passwords in Keychain?
>To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
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>OK..now, if I change a computer's password, do I need to be offline
>just for extra security WHILE I enter the new code?

It would only make a difference if you have already been compromised 
with some keylogger or similar. If you have been (and no-one has 
found one for OS X yet) then you would have to fix that first - then 
it wouldn't matter.

David


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David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
Chair of HPUX SysAdmin SIG of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk
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