Re: Validate a Password
Re: Validate a Password
- Subject: Re: Validate a Password
- From: David Blanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:27:42 -0600
On 8/5/03 4:01 PM, "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 07:13 pm, David Blanton wrote:
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> Howdy from New Mexico!
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> I need to validate a password before dispatching a NSTask. Looking up
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> authenticate in AppKiDo I don't see anything that gets me to a password
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> file. How does one validate a password for a given user thru Cocoa?
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If you want administrative privileges, you should use Authorization
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Services (which isn't part of Cocoa [or Carbon for that matter]), which
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is the component that implements the standard
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asking-for-administrative-password box. It's documented on Apple's
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web-site at http://developer.apple.com/security.
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If you're after something more, you might end-up needing to use Open
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Directory... I don't know a great deal about that, but I'm sure you can
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find someone who does.
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Kind regards,
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Alastair.
Thank you Alastair. I was unaware of Authorization
Services. I will comment on my results.
DB
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