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Re: Red shirt stuff

Richard,

Mike Bombich posted a really nice solution for this situation to the list about 6 months ago. It's available here: <http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-studio/2003/Jun/06/ adminprivilegesquestion.txt>

This allows you to validate a candidate password and then store it as a variable for use in calling shell scripts later in your application. I use some similarly-developed code and it works quite well; in all the versions/updates for Jaguar and Panther rolled together it hasn't yet broken.

Practically, the password is stored as a plain-text variable in runtime memory, so it's not encoded or encrypted after it's returned from this routine. Though you'd have to be doing a good bit or work to have access to memory and runtime variables within a running application to get at that...

Best,

Steve Elliott


On Dec 29, 2003, at 6.33 am, Richard MacLemale wrote:

I have some questions about security...

Let's say I am designing an applescript studio app that will allow users to backup their files to a local network server. The app will have two fields - name and password. But instead of having the user type in their name and password each time, I want the program to remember their name and password. This means I have to save that info somewhere. Questions:

1. Can I save the data securely somewhere within the app itself? Or, if not,
2. Is there some way I can encrypt the info and write it to a text file in the user's prefs folder?

Thanks in advance.
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Richard MacLemale
Mac Network Admin
http://homepage.mac.com/richardmaclemale
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