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Re: [PATCH] contrib: add a credential helper for Mac OS X's keychain

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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date
Sep 14, 2011, 10:24 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
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> A credential helper which uses /usr/bin/security to add, search,
> and remove entries from the Mac OS X keychain.
>
> Tested with 10.6.8.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
> ---
> This is a quick script to explore the new credential API. A more robust
> implementation would be to link to OS X's Security framework from C.

I'm pretty close with a version of this that is written in C. I've done it as a completely separate build from git, although it probably wouldn't be hard to make it build in the contrib area.

If no one else picks it up, I may look at doing a version against the secrets api for Linux too.

-John
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