On 12/21/04 5:00 PM, "Ken McLeod" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> /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.
Thanks. This appears to work OK for displaying items from the command line.
Unfortunately it always sends it's output to stderr which makes it harder to
catch the output and extract the actual password text from it. Grrrr.
AppleScript may be a workable alternative as it looks like it might be
easier to get ahold of the actual password text.
Scott
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