From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can emacs use the mac os x keychain?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:47:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5iq1hjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01ea3506-d715-491d-b360-3abf34e98013@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
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
That seems useful. I think auth-source needs a general protocol to talk
to helper applications when Emacs itself doesn't support it. This can
be tricky because of the security implications of passing passwords.
EPG does it well but I don't know the specifics. So there's really
three parts:
1) define a helper protocol to pass auth request parameters in the
environment somehow
2) read the password back securely
3) write an implementation that works with the Mac OS X keychain
Contributions welcome on all 3 items. I don't know if I'll have time
soon to work on this, but feedback would certainly help.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:09:30 +0100 Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
USR> Another question that I always wondered about. Does auth-source allow
USR> for multiple logins on the same server/protocol combination?
Not currently. The first one found is picked IIRC. I think it would
make the UI significantly more complex to allow multiples and perhaps
confuse users. The advanced users that need that can typically use
aliases for the server name. Do you see a need for it?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 13:47 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 [this message]
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 ` can emacs use the mac os x keychain? Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-29 4:31 ` 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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