I'm still waiting for the "Quit asking me to retype my password every time I try to do anything" setting. You'd think that the fact I typed it in 30 seconds ago when I logged in would be sufficient proof that I'm me.
This is the type of security that actually leads to less security. Eventually I'll get so sick of not being able to hit the back button on my browser (or whatever similarly impactful action that OSX decides is going to destroy my machine) without special one-time-only admin privileges that I'll just remove the password from my account altogether.
(Fair warning, I'm presuming the back button of which you speak is a Safari back button. I have not experienced this problem myself and I have full-disk encryption on, which requires you to enter a password for most anything.)
This is quite possibly the case. OS X doesn't normally ask for your password once you're logged in except when you're doing something that will affect multiple users (e.g. updating the system). The big exception is when it has somehow lost your keychain password, in which case it will ask for your password every time it needs to look at the keychain.
How often do you come across the need to type in your password? Personally, I do not have to do that too often, and when I have to it usually makes sense to re-authenticate.
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I'm still waiting for the "Quit asking me to retype my password every time I try to do anything" setting. You'd think that the fact I typed it in 30 seconds ago when I logged in would be sufficient proof that I'm me.
This is the type of security that actually leads to less security. Eventually I'll get so sick of not being able to hit the back button on my browser (or whatever similarly impactful action that OSX decides is going to destroy my machine) without special one-time-only admin privileges that I'll just remove the password from my account altogether.
Sounds like you need to fix some Keychain Access settings. Grasping at Internet straws, but perhaps something like this will help?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2108355?start=0&tst...
(Fair warning, I'm presuming the back button of which you speak is a Safari back button. I have not experienced this problem myself and I have full-disk encryption on, which requires you to enter a password for most anything.)
This is quite possibly the case. OS X doesn't normally ask for your password once you're logged in except when you're doing something that will affect multiple users (e.g. updating the system). The big exception is when it has somehow lost your keychain password, in which case it will ask for your password every time it needs to look at the keychain.
How often do you come across the need to type in your password? Personally, I do not have to do that too often, and when I have to it usually makes sense to re-authenticate.
If you're getting a password request when you hit the back button, you've got some funky browser plugins.