Operating System secure storage

Major Operating Systems include a secure storage. A secure storage is an encrypted storage linked to the identity of a user of the system.

All three major Operating Systems include a secure storage, but names vary based on the platform:

• Linux-based OSes can use GNOME Keyring or KDE Wallet Manager (KWallet)
• macOS has Keychain
• Windows has Windows Credentials Manager (😞 no Wiki page for it yet)

A secure storage role is to store local credentials securely on your system. It generally locks and unlocks with your user password for convenience and runs in the background as a daemon, providing application credentials upon request.

It's like a password manager backed into your Operating System. It's main disadvantage is that there is no data portability between them, and that's why other free/commercial/closed and open source alternative exist.