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Re: Login password


  • Subject: Re: Login password
  • From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:59:49 -0700

On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 12:31 PM, Rhon Fitzwater wrote:

does anyone know if there is a way that I can get the password the user enters in the login screen at startup. I want to be able to get that password and use it and a script at startup... any ideas. > Thanks.


That Would Be Bad.

Letting a script get at the user's login password would be a major security hole, which we would plug as soon as it was discovered.

Almost anything you want to do that requires the user's password can either use the Keychain, or bring up a dialog then and there to get it, but there are few if any circumstances where a script should be able to get the user's password either manually or automatically.

Chris Espinosa
Apple
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