Restart your Mac and open any Microsoft Office app to reactivate. Note: You will need local admin privileges to make changes to your Keychain Access.Ĥ. In Keychain Access, delete the following files: In Spotlight Search (the magnifying glass) on your Mac, search for and open Keychain Access.ģ.
Please sign out and quit all of your Office app, then Run the License Removal Tool.Ģ. To narrow down this issue, please first make sure that you have the appropriate license for the Office desktop app.įor your reference: What Microsoft 365 business product or license do I have?ġ. This should be tightened up.Thank you for posting in the community and I am sorry for this inconvenience caused to you. I went through my keychain entries and found a half dozen that were set for Always access to the Keychain Access application.
As noted in another post here, this could be a problem for any password entry, including those to ftp servers, bank accounts, encrypted files etc. Mail, that is what you want, but NOT for an application like Keychain Access. It should be very clear what the implications are of assigning a policy of Always for each application. Security should be conservative by default. Why would you ever want to Always let one application display all of your passwords in plain text? In fact, I don't see any reason for an option like that at all. the Mail application to have 'Always' access, which happens in a way that is not visible to anyone, but you DON'T normally want the Keychain Access application to have Always access to the password. If you choose 'Allow Always' that means the Keychain Access application Always has access to that password without prompting. If you select 'show passphrase' it will normally then ask you for the password at that time and ask you what policy you want to assign for the Keychain Access application. By default, the Keychain Access application itself does not have access to the passwords. Each entry has an Access Control setting that says which applications can access the password. It is NOT true that once you open your Keychain Access application you then automatically can see all your passwords. Part of the power of Keychain Access is that it lets you be as secure as you want to be you can "introduce" this bug in other passwords just by switching their settings to 'Always allow access to this item.' So please, don't worry about this particular security bug - it's really nothing more than a switch that wasn't set to the highest security level upon leaving the factory. Click on the Access Control tab, and notice that this key is set to 'Always allow access to this item.' That's the "bug." To fix it, just click on 'Confirm before allowing access' and 'Ask for Keychain password.' Click Save Changes and enter your Keychain password. Open the Keychain Access application and click on the 'iTools password' entry. If this bothers you a lot, you can fix this "bug" yourself with a few mouse clicks. mac Keychain entry is set to not require authorization prior to viewing. MAC USERS, NOT OTHER KEYCHAINS.While this does, indeed, sound like a not very good thing, it's actually not much of a bug - it's a feature with an insecure setting. Whenever you unlock a keychain all of them unlock. The only way to protect the iTools is to lock all keychains and by default Apple sets all keychains to unlock.
Mac password will be exposed without authentication. When a user opens the Keychain application and selects the iTools password keychain and then clicks on the 'Show Passphrase' (on bottom of page), the user's. When you open up the Keychain application, you will see a list of stored passwords for the various services, such as your e-mail, Airport and iChat. There is a major security hole in the Keychain Access application. Mac (aka iTools) user you need to be aware! This bug has been confirmed in 10.2.4 and also occurs in a recently leaked build of 10.2.5 (6L11) and may affect older versions as well. But before you have a mild panic over the following, please read the whole hint - it's not as bad as the quote may imply. mac and Keychain Access (I also noticed the same warning on MacNN this morning). I received the following note from Anonymous today concerning a security exposure bug with.