/usr/bin/security has some rudimentary support for this.
For example, /usr/bin/security find-generic-password -a thecloud -s
iTools -g
shows me my saved password with that account name and service name.
One gotcha here is that the system currently needs to put up UI to
confirm access to the keychain. If the ACL for the keychain item you're
accessing requires the keychain password to be entered in order to
access it, and the session in which you're running is *not* a graphic
(login window) session, then your access will fail. You should be able
to set this up once and click "Always Allow," assuming the process
running your script does not change.
AppleScript is another scripting alternative. Here's some working
sample code:
tell application "Keychain Scripting"
-- look up our key
try
set myStoogeKey to first generic key of current keychain whose
service is "Dewey, Cheatem & Howe"
on error
set myStoogeKey to ""
end try
-- if we found our key, delete it
if (myStoogeKey is not "") then
delete myStoogeKey
end if
-- make a new key
make new generic key with properties {name:"Curly", account:"user3",
service:"Dewey, Cheatem & Howe", password:"woowoowoo"}
set myStoogeKey to the result
-- change some attributes of the key
set (name of myStoogeKey) to "Shemp"
set (account of myStoogeKey) to "user4"
set (password of myStoogeKey) to "zzzBBBBB"
end tell
hope that helps,
-ken
On Dec 21, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Scott Thompson wrote:
I'm writing a script (in Ruby) and I would like that script to store
and
retrieve a password from the users keychain.
Is there any command line access for creating and retrieving passwords
from
the keychain? I found something called "keytool" but it looks to be
related
to Java development.
Scott
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