From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can emacs use the mac os x keychain?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E08AA7AC-445E-4EBF-87F2-CD3D4E241156@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739v2s9z2.fsf@lifelogs.com>
On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
> AR> A useful-sounding idea but seems mainly like something that would be
> AR> a third-party package or maybe part of Aquamacs. Are there any
> AR> platform-independent parts of the needed functionality that the NS
> AR> port lacks and Emacs on X11 or W32 has?
>
...
> Assuming we get the NS port access to the Mac OS X keychain, that leaves
> W32 as the only major platform lacking keychain support. I don't
> believe W32 has a standard keychain so that may be OK.
I principle, the C part would be fairly simple. There are separate functions for "internet passwords", which retrieve and store passwords for a host/port/account combination.
Am I right assuming that we would need an API paralleling that provided by secrets.el?
There are a few issues as far as I can see:
- The user is prompted via a graphical dialog to unlock a keychain (i.e., to provide a password protecting all the passwords). When in TTY, we shouldn't do this, but unlock the keychain ourselves, i.e., read a password from the user via a (password) minibuffer. This sort of interaction would have to be handled by an extra Lisp layer. (Once the application is trusted, this prompt would go away.) How is this done in GNOME?
- Any passwords that we obtain would probably have to be copied so we can return them as a Lisp string. What provisions are in place in order to protect the copy and guarantee its deletion after use?
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Security/Reference/keychainservices/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/SecKeychainFindInternetPassword
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 18:52 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 ` 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 [this message]
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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