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Keychain Services Tasks

This chapter describes and illustrates the use of basic Keychain Services functions.

The functions described in this chapter enable you to:

• Add a password to a keychain

• Find a password in a keychain

• Get the attributes and data in a keychain item

• Change the attributes and data in a keychain item

• Unlock a keychain

• Lock a keychain

• Suppress the automatic display of the create keychain or open keychain dialogs

• Add trusted applications to a keychain item’s access control list

“Keychain Services Concepts” provides an introduction to the concepts and terminology of Keychain Services. For detailed information about all Keychain Services functions, see Keychain Services Reference.

Contents:

Adding Simple Keychain Services to Your Application
Advanced Topics

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