What Happens If I Clear Credential Storage
Clearing credential storage can be useful in a number of scenarios. For example, if you no longer need a user’s credentials and you want to clear the user’s saved credentials, clearing credential storage can be a quick and easy way to do that.
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What Happens If You Clear Credential Storage?
If you clear credential storage, all credentials
- stored in encrypted form on your phone
- are permanently deleted. This includes all email addresses, passwords, and other credentials associated with your accounts. If you have any saved credit card numbers, bank account numbers, or other sensitive information, you’ll need to create new credentials for all of your accounts.
The Risks of Clearing Credential Storage
Clearing credential storage could lead to unintended access to your confidential information. If your credentials are cleared, anyone with access to your computer can view your login information and other sensitive information. Clearing credential storage also removes any encryption or security measures that may have been put in place to protect your data.
What Data is Stored in Credential Storage?
If you clear credential storage, any data that was previously associated with your account (including usernames, passwords, and other login information) is deleted.
How to Clear Credential Storage
Clearing credential storage clears all local and temporary credential storage associated with the current user. Clearing credential storage does not clear any remote credential storage.
Should You Clear Credential Storage?
Clearing credential storage means deleting all the stored credentials for a user. If a user has a stored credential for a site, all sites that the user has access to will also lose access to the user’s credential. Credential storage is only retained for a limited time, typically 30 days. After that, any stored credentials will be automatically deleted.
There are a few reasons you might want to clear credential storage. If the user has been inactive for a long period of time, credential storage will eventually fill up and the user will no longer be able to login to any sites. If you’re migrating to a new system and want to clear all the user’s credentials for all the sites they have access to, this is the method to use. Finally, if you suspect that a user has stolen or leaked their credentials, clearing credential storage will prevent them from using those credentials on any sites.
Conclusion
If you clear credential storage, you will lose any stored credentials and any associated data.
