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RE: user authentication?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Guerin [SMTP:email@hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:33 AM
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: user authentication?
>
> Mike Hall <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> >> I've looked but couldn't find any java libraries (apple custom
> >> libraries?) that would provide for an authentication box.
> >
> >How about keychain, since I set that up it asks me for password from
> >time to time including for my user. Which is admin although I'm not
> >sure thats why it's asking. And I haven't looked at a API.
>
> The Keychain will ask you for passwords when it's needed to access the
> secrets held in the Keychain.

OK, taking a little closer look, yes, Keychain seems mainly a manager for security related. Not an access API.
Checking off the setuid() you indicated seemed to show the following as the closest I saw to what was requested.
Although not including setuid() itself that I notice.

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreTechnologies/securityservices/authorizationservices/authorization_concepts/03authtasks/Calling_a_P_d_Installer.html

Mike Hall <email@hidden>
<http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall>
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