Ah, which is why FFI is a good thing  because I don't need to rummage  
about the bottom of the VM and operating system to provide this  
functionality.

On 4-Nov-05, at 7:23 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> The right place to store passwords in Mac OSX is the system-wide  
> keychain. It turned out to be really easy to use - one FFI call to  
> store a password, another one to retrieve it. Code attached.
>
> For more information, see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/ 
> Security/Reference/keychainservices/
>
> "add password"
> SecKeychain addInternetPassword: 'squeak' forUrl: 'http:// 
> bert at source.impara.de/' asUrl
>
> "get password"
> SecKeychain findInternetPasswordForUrl: 'http:// 
> bert at source.impara.de/' asUrl
>
> - Bert -
>
> <SecKeychain.st>
>

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