Re: Validate a Password
Re: Validate a Password
- Subject: Re: Validate a Password
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:01:07 +0100
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 07:13 pm, David Blanton wrote:
Howdy from New Mexico!
I need to validate a password before dispatching a NSTask. Looking up
authenticate in AppKiDo I don't see anything that gets me to a password
file. How does one validate a password for a given user thru Cocoa?
If you want administrative privileges, you should use Authorization
Services (which isn't part of Cocoa [or Carbon for that matter]), which
is the component that implements the standard
asking-for-administrative-password box. It's documented on Apple's
web-site at
http://developer.apple.com/security.
If you're after something more, you might end-up needing to use Open
Directory... I don't know a great deal about that, but I'm sure you can
find someone who does.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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