From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:24:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib: add a credential helper for Mac OS X's keychain
Message-ID: <CAEBDL5X9jic1GVNWdWVcvSfWELTu79oE2eEiPHEsxS0hV+ZigA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1315683874-95583-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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