Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] password authentification ???

[<jea...@gm...>]

On 8/12/07, Yvon Thoraval <yvo...@gm...> wrote:
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> 2007/8/12, jea...@gm... <jea...@gm...>:
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> > On 8/10/07, Yvon Thoraval < yvo...@gm...> wrote:
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> > > i need to do a user authentification within a small RubyCocoa app.
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> > > i'd like to save the password in a prefs file (yaml for ex)
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> > > someone had experience with that little thing ?
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> > why not use the keychain / authentication framework instead of saving
> > the password in a textfile?
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> seems to be very much complicated ???
> i'll see that point too.
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> assuming the proper frameworks are exposed via BS, i'm sure there are
> > keychain/authentication examples on developer.apple.com but you'd of
> > course need to make the usual conversion to ruby.
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> what do you called "BS" ???
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BridgeSupport - sorry :0)

depending if you need to temporarily authenticate the user for admin access
or keychain, you would use different tools.

this might be of help
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/SecureCodingGuide/Articles/SecuritySvcs.html

and maybe even this (you could generate bridge support files, embed them in
the framework and embed the framework in your app):
http://bdash.net.nz/blog/2004/08/30/example-code-mac-os-x-keychain-access-from-python/

cheers,
jean-pierre