NAME

Passwd::Keyring::OSXKeychain - Password storage implementation based on OSX/Keychain.

VERSION

Version 0.4000

WARNING

I do not have Mac. I wrote the library mimicking actions of some python libraries and tested using mocks, but help of somebody able to test it on true Mac is really needed.

SYNOPSIS

OSXKeychain Keyring based implementation of Keyring. Provide secure storage for passwords and similar sensitive data.

    use Passwd::Keyring::OSXKeychain;

    my $keyring = Passwd::Keyring::OSXKeychain->new(
         app=>"blahblah scraper",
         group=>"Johnny web scrapers",
    );

    my $username = "John";  # or get from .ini, or from .argv...

    my $password = $keyring->get_password($username, "blahblah.com");
    unless( $password ) {
        $password = <somehow interactively prompt for password>;

        # securely save password for future use
        $keyring->set_password($username, $password, "blahblah.com");
    }

    login_somewhere_using($username, $password);
    if( password_was_wrong ) {
        $keyring->clear_password($username, "blahblah.com");
    }

Note: see Passwd::Keyring::Auto::KeyringAPI for detailed comments on keyring method semantics (this document is installed with Passwd::Keyring::Auto package).

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new(app=>'app name', group=>'passwords folder')

Initializes the processing. Croaks if osxkeychain keyring does not seem to be available.

Handled named parameters:

- app - symbolic application name (not used at the moment, but can be used in future as comment and in prompts, so set sensibly)

- group - name for the password group (will be visible in seahorse so can be used by end user to manage passwords, different group means different password set, a few apps may share the same group if they need to use the same passwords set)

(OSXKeychain-specific)

- security_prog - location of security program (/usr/bin/security by default, possibility to overwrite is mostly needed for testing)

- keychain - keychain to use (if not default)

set_password(username, password, realm)

Sets (stores) password identified by given realm for given user

get_password($user_name, $realm)

Reads previously stored password for given user in given app. If such password can not be found, returns undef.

clear_password($user_name, $realm)

Removes given password (if present)

Returns how many passwords actually were removed

is_persistent

Returns info, whether this keyring actually saves passwords persistently.

(true in this case)

AUTHOR

Marcin Kasperski

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to issue tracker at https://helixteamhub.cloud/mekk/projects/perl/issues.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Passwd::Keyring::OSXKeychain

You can also look for information at:

http://search.cpan.org/~mekk/Passwd-Keyring-OSXKeychain/

Source code is tracked at:

https://helixteamhub.cloud/mekk/projects/perl/repositories/keyring-osxkeychain

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012 Marcin Kasperski.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

cpanm Passwd::Keyring::OSXKeychain

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Passwd::Keyring::OSXKeychain