Re: Login password
Re: Login password
- Subject: Re: Login password
- From: Chaz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:59:17 -0600
Of course, you could simply ask the user yourself at run-time. You could
even make it look like the regular framework.
(I'm not suggesting you do this.)
This seems like a security problem against unknowing users, but I don't
know how it could be helped. (ex. You ask for user's password and email
it to you without the user knowing) Users might do this if they thought
the program did something that it obviously doesn't do (or maybe it does
do).
Fortunately, there's no means of obtaining the password through the
operating system.
That I know of.........
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 02:12 PM, email@hidden wrote:
For many reasons I sincerely hope you can't.
Seriously.. Think about the security ramifications if "you" could get it,
then anyone could and there would be
no security on Mac OS X at all..
Luckily, unless Apple did something VERY VERY odd, this is impossible
anyway.. Standard unix mechanisms
don't even store (ever) the clear text password.. only the encrypted one.
. and then compare the
two encrypted passwords..
Perhaps you should tell us what you would want with someone's login
password? There may be
a different way to do what you want to do.. For example, there are some
built-in authentication
routines that can be used to authenticate the user if that is what you
want..
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 02:31 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.
-Rhon
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