Re: Password entry dialog

FROM : Jean-Daniel Dupas
DATE : Thu May 15 23:43:07 2008

Le 15 mai 08 à 23:17, Ron Aldrich a écrit :

>
> On May 15, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>

>> All security related API are in the Security Framework(s).
>>
>> You do not have control of what to user enter in this dialog, its 
>> main purpose is to create some "rights" and return them to you if 
>> the user is allow to use them.
>>
>> Usually this dialog is automatically displayed when you query some 
>> authorizaton. The cocoa way to do this is to use the 
>> "SFAuthorization" class from SecurityFoundation framework.
>>
>> What do you want to do exactly with this dialog ?

>
> In my case, I'm needing to manage the password for a USB Thumb drive 
> that supports a password protected area.  I could implement this by 
> itself pretty easily, using the NSSecureTextField, except that I 
> would like to go much farther than simple password entry.
>
> I would like provide the ability for users to store the password on 
> their keychain.
>
> I would like to utilize the "Password Assistant" for creating 
> passwords.
>
> I found a discussion of the Password Assistant, along with a link to 
> a sample program using it at http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?PasswordAssistant
>
> Unfortunately, the methods needed to utilize it would indicate to me 
> that Apple considers it to be a private API.
>
> That same discussion also seems to indicate that the password entry 
> dialog used in diskimages-helper is also private.
>
> So, unless I'm missing something, it looks like I'm going to be 
> rolling my own dialog.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Ron Aldrich
> Software Architects, Inc.
>



Ok, you mean "password creation" dialog, not "password query" dialog. 
Sorry for the confusion.
So no, I don't think there is a public API to invoke it. You can fill 
a bug report to request this features.