Re: Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services

[Ben Key <bkey76@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1378 bytes --]

Hello,

I am still working on this task.  I need some more advice though.

As I mentioned before, I am attempting to add ns-keychain functions that
match the secrets.el API as closely as possible.  I am adding a ns-keychain
function for each secrets- function that has the same parameters as the
secrets- function.  So far in my work, I have been mapping the collection
parameter to the serviceName parameter of the various Keychain Services API
functions.  By default, I am using the default Keychain to store the data
but adding a user configurable option to allow another keychain file to be
used.

But, after taking another look at auth-source.el, I am wondering if this was
the correct design decision.  I am wondering if I should instead be
interpreting the collection parameter as an indication of which keychain
file to store the passwords in.  I could interpret the value "default" for
the collection parameter as an indication that the default keychain should
be used.  I could interpret the value "Login" or "secrets:Login" as an
indication that the Login keychain should be used.  Other values for
collection parameter could be interpreted as an indication that the data
should be stored in a file {collection}.keychain in ~/Library/Keychains.

Which interpretation of the collection parameter is the correct one?  I ask
because I want to be sure to get this right.

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1491 bytes --]