Tereza, Curiosity got the better of me so I gave the Security command line + LC a whirl and it was extremely easy.
After manually creating a dummy 'generic' account (not Internet, also called application) in Keychain Access = dummyAcct, with Password = password, I created a new main stack with one button and one field. In the button: on mouseUp put empty into fld 1 put "security find-generic-password -a 'dummyAcct' -g" into tStore put shell(tStore) into tStore2 put line 1 of tStore2 into fld 1 end mouseUp I was expecting the OS to give me a prompt for the OS User Password; I got an OS prompt, but it was just a caution that one app (Security) was trying to access another app (Keychain) and did I wish to allow it. Clicking Allow let the script proceed - no OS User Password needed. As pointed out, this is dangerous and could mean a non-intended user sitting at the computer could obtain the application password. So, as a safer alternative, you could, when the user first opens your app and has to set a password, use Security + LC to store a copy in Keychain. Then if the user forgets their password you could open Keychain for them, then provide a prompt advising them that it's stored in Keychain and they can retrieve it there - if it were me the prompt would include very specific instructions on how to find your application password in Keychain and conclude with a statement 'Do not click the Proceed button until you have successfully retrieved your Password'. Obviously the prompt would include a Cancel and Proceed btn, clicking Proceed would bring up a new prompt to enter their Password. In Keychain the only way you can view passwords is by the User entering their OS User Password thereby preventing any casual user from access. Sorry Bill for not suggesting using InfoWallet ;-( HTH _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
