patch: support for the OS X keychain

Here is a small dynamic module that adds support for the OS X keychain to XEmacs. The OS X keychain is a mechanism that stores application passwords (and other secret information) in encrypted file on the disk. This is quite useful: For example, if the user unlocks his keychain on login, applications may fetch passwords from the keychain to access some server without having to ask for the server password. I always wanted Gnus to use the keychain to store my IMAP server passwords instead of the plain text ~/.netrc or ~/.authinfo files. So, here is a small patch that adds a module that wraps Carbon API to keychain into Lisp functions: KEYCHAIN-FIND, KEYCHAIN-REMOVE, and KEYCHAIN-ADD. The functions are pretty simple to use. The call (keychain-add "imap:foo＠bar.org" "geheim") adds the password "geheim" to the (user's default) keychain identified by string "imap:foo＠bar.org". To retrieve this password, simply call: (keychain-find "imap:foo＠bar.org") -Eric -- "Excuse me --- Di Du Du Duuuuh Di Dii --- Huh Weeeheeee" (Albert King) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches