Re: [repost] Authenticating a *specific* user
Re: [repost] Authenticating a *specific* user
- Subject: Re: [repost] Authenticating a *specific* user
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:36:26 +0000
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 05:23 pm, Buzz Andersen wrote:
Forgive me if this has been discussed here before, but I can't find
anything that seems to be pertinent in the archives. I am able to use
the Security Framework to authenticate a user as an administrator
(i.e. whether they are in the admin group), but I can't seem to find a
way to authenticate a person as a *specific* user. Reading the
documentation, it looks like the Security Framework may support this
at some point in the future, but none of the functionality is
currently implemented (then again, the OS X screen saver seems to do
exactly this, so maybe it is there and I'm misunderstanding?).
I think Security Framework *does* support this, it's just not a
publicly exposed API. I don't really understand why you need to do
this, though...
Anyway, you have several options:
1) Private Security Framework API
2) Private NIInterface API (deprecated, going away)
3) Public DirectoryServices API (I think this should work)
4) In 10.2, PAM.
-- Finlay
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