From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can emacs use the mac os x keychain?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:53:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vanu08g.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5iq1hjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:47:27 -0500")
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:47:27 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
TZ> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:36:18 -0700 (PDT) vm user <emacs_user@hotmail.com> wrote:
vu> On Jul 1, 12:20 pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>>> Unless there's a helper program or support inside Emacs (the latter is
>>> unlikely IMO) it's not possible to query this API from within Emacs.
vu> I am quite an ignorant in these things, but does the following help?
vu> http://log.scifihifi.com/post/55837387/simple-iphone-keychain-code
TZ> That seems useful. I think auth-source needs a general protocol to talk
TZ> to helper applications when Emacs itself doesn't support it. This can
TZ> be tricky because of the security implications of passing passwords.
TZ> EPG does it well but I don't know the specifics. So there's really
TZ> three parts:
TZ> 1) define a helper protocol to pass auth request parameters in the
TZ> environment somehow
TZ> 2) read the password back securely
TZ> 3) write an implementation that works with the Mac OS X keychain
Adrian, is there any chance that the NS Emacs port can provide those
keychain functions through an ELisp layer? It would make it easier and
more secure to get user passwords, plus users wouldn't need to install
the helper program.
I don't know if there are any linking issues with that, so cc-ing
emacs-devel as well.
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 1:55 can emacs use the mac os x keychain? vm user
2010-04-21 4:02 ` Barry Margolin
2010-04-21 17:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-04-22 0:58 ` Barry Margolin
2010-04-23 2:18 ` vm user
[not found] ` <87vd8z2myy.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2010-07-25 3:36 ` vm user
2010-07-26 13:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-26 14:47 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-26 19:32 ` auth-source multiple accounts (was: can emacs use the mac os x keychain?) Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <87630211kx.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com>
2010-07-26 21:21 ` auth-source multiple accounts Uday S Reddy
2010-07-27 14:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-27 17:19 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-27 17:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-27 21:35 ` Uday S Reddy
[not found] ` <87y6cvu53t.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2010-07-28 21:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-10-27 13:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-14 22:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-28 14:53 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-07-29 4:31 ` can emacs use the mac os x keychain? Adrian Robert
2010-07-29 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-30 9:17 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-30 10:37 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-07-31 9:57 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-30 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-29 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-29 18:52 ` David Reitter
2010-07-29 20:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-30 0:13 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-30 13:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-08-01 1:44 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-08-01 2:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-25 20:09 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-25 20:04 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-26 2:23 ` vm user
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