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You may want to setup autolocking:

1. Launch "Keychain Access".

2. Right click on "login" keychain.

3. Click "Change Settings for Keychain 'login'".

4. Check the "Lock after:" box.

5. Change the minutes of activity to whatever you want.

You have the option of auto-locking after zero minutes of inactivity.

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or using command line (lock default keychain on sleep and after 30 min):

  $ security set-keychain-settings -lut 1800

I tried this, and quickly got annoyed with having to enter my password every time iCal tried to sync.

It would be better if you could set it to require a password every time a previously unauthorized app requests access to a Keychain item.

I think I had this same problem with Mail.app. I "solved" it by creating a separate keychain that just locks on sleep, but doesn't timeout, and moving my Mail passwords into that keychain. Presumably the same thing would work for iCal.

Just in case anybody else doesn't see the 'login' keychain: the square button with a triangle in the bottom left corner shows and hides an additional list of keychains

I was about 5 minutes in to the docs to set up a quicksilver task to do this - thanks for helping me avoid re-inventing the wheel. Yours was the better 'hack'. ;)

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