Keychain Auto Unlock

Keychain AutoUnlock by Jason Giles © 1999-2000 Chaotic Software and Jason Giles What Is It? This mini-utility will automatically unlock your keychain on system startup. It will also unlock it whenever you run the application. It's quite handy for those of us who love the keychain, but hate the fact that every time we restart or boot-up, we must unlock it first before it can be used (of course, this is defeating the whole purpose of security... oh well!). You will need MacOS 9 (with the Keychain installed and active) to make use of this application. What's New? Version 1.2: Added the deluxe "how to" instructions below in the "How Do I Use It?" section. Added a new feature to "always prompt" on startup. Yes, this sort of defeats the purpose of having it auto-unlock, but it is useful for certain software configurations, where the keychain screws up by trying to open certain servers before other software is setup correctly on startup. Most people will not want this feature, and they should just leave it off. Version 1.1.1: The Version 1.1 workaround had the unfortunate affect of opening the "Aliases" Folder every time you started your computer. So, the new location for servers you wish to mount at startup is in the System Folder (at the same level as the Startup Items folder), and it must be named "Startup Servers". Version 1.1 adds the ability to mount servers after Keychain AutoUnlock runs. There is a "bug" or "feature" in the Finder that causes aliases to servers in the Startup Items folder to always get opened first. Therefore, this app always runs after, causing the finder to prompt you to enter your password for the volumes you have aliases. This defeats one use of the app, so this version provides a workaround for this problem. See how to use this feature below. How Do I Use It? Simply place the application anywhere on your hard disk. Run it, and the first time you run it will ask you to enter the password for your default keychain. Once you've clicked OK, it will attempt to unlock the keychain. If it is successful, it will store an alias to itself in the Startup Items folder. From then on, every time the system is rebooted, the app will run and unlock the keychain without intervention from you. To disable the auto-unlock, simply remove the alias in the Startup Items folder of your System Folder. If you want to disable the auto-login before startup, use the Extensions Manager Control Panel (hold down the Space Bar while the system boots). To change the password the application uses, hold down the Command Key and double click the application. The password dialog should reappear, and allow you to change it. To Auto-Mount Servers in your Startup items folder: you can have servers automatically mounted on startup. Simply create a folder named "Startup Servers" (it must match that EXACTLY, it is case sensitive) in your System Folder folder, and put any aliases to any servers you wish to auto-mount in this folder. On startup, KA will scan …