How To use Keychain to Recover your Password on Your Mac

If you've ever entered a password in your Web browser or e-mail client, or provided a password for an encrypted disk image, your Mac has probably asked whether you'd like to save that password to your Keychain. In addition to accessing your keychain through these dialog boxes, you can work directly with your Key-chain via Keychain Access (Applications: Utilities).

When you launch Keychain Access, you see a list of all the items in your Keychain, including information about each item's name, kind, creation date, and modification date. If you haven't opened Keychain Access before, most of these items will be passwords—Internet passwords, application passwords, disk image passwords.

Select any password item to bring up information about that item at the bottom of the window: the item name and kind; the account name (if applicable); and the specific URL, application name, or disk-image name for which you use the password. You can view the actual password by selecting the Show Password option and entering your Keychain password. To paste a password into another application, click on the Copy Password To Clipboard button. You can also add comments about the item—say, to remind you what a particular item is for, or to include a Web site's password hint and answer.

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hey guys how you doing we have a neat
little application that comes with the
Americans called the keychain and lovers
who wants the kitchen well you know when
you go in all these websites and you put
in your password and you may have
different password set up the website
and it's like wow I cannot remember what
I'm putting my password is and that's
happened to me especially if you have
multiple twitter account for facebook
account or whatever so go basically what
you need to do is go to your
Applications folder don't utilities in
click keychain access and when you click
keychain access you this is so cool
because you can have like all items and
you can pretty much look and this will
keep up with all the different sites
that you know for example skype if i
click double click it it will tell me
you know the name and the application
and etc and if i click here it will show
my password and click here so no he'd
see it but you can do this like my
different Twitter accounts same thing if
i click here it will show me what my
password is for my twitter account for
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whatever
as you can see i have Wirecast so I can
you know I have a password to get in the
Wirecast and this is really an eight-way
if you forget your password so this is
kind of like a password recovery for any
sites that are programs that you may use
and so he chained take a look at it if
you forgotten any password to use using
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