Re: Password
Re: Password
- Subject: Re: Password
- From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:05:57 +0100
On 2009-09-18, at 23:39:18, Jarrod Coffin wrote: Hello i started out making a simple app that would show hidden files but as i thought about it I dont want just anyone being able to access this app with out a password. I have most of the script but its not compiling right and i cant figure out why. Im also pretty new to this.
here is the script i have already:
[Snip]...
set the_password to "password" --set this to the password you want to use
It is worth pointing out that it is very bad practice to store the password in the script itself. The password can be easily read from the script files - even if the script is stored as 'run-only'
A far better technique is to store a MD5 hash of the actual password and pass the user's input to the shell to check the hash matches:
property passwordHash : "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"
repeat display dialog "please enter password" default answer "password" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 with icon 0 with hidden answer set userInput to text returned of the result set userHash to last word of (do shell script "md5 -s \"" & userInput & "\"") if userHash = passwordHash then display dialog "You Guessed right!" exit repeat else display dialog "Wrong! Try again..." end if end repeat
to get the hash in the first place, open the terminal and type:
md5 -s "your password phrase"
the hash will be displayed on the following line
--
Barry
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| | >Password (From: Jarrod Coffin <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Password (From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>) |