Accessing keychain from Terminal?

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Accessing keychain from Terminal?

I am wondering if i can access my keychain (with saved passwords) from Terminal, and in this case, SSH?

That would be great, so if it does, i would appreciate if someone would let me know how 🙂

/karlan

alu iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on May 12, 2008 10:59 AM

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madconqueror

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May 13, 2008 4:07 AM in response to karlan

hi karlan

the shell command to access keychains is called security. There's a good man page. Also have a look at
http://blog.macromates.com/2006/keychain-access-from-shell/

hope this helps,

--greg

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karlan Author

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May 13, 2008 5:51 AM in response to madconqueror

security doesn't seem to match my criteria thou.

I need to access the keychain and read passwords from it when im SSH:ed on, and i get "User interaction is not allowed" etc.

The app needs a command-line to work properly.

Any other alternatives?

Thanks thou for the link, really usefull reading =)

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May 13, 2008 6:10 AM in response to karlan

hi karlan

I'm sorry, I didn't read your question exactly. I don't know of a tool that can access the keychain via ssh directly. You would have to login a user to the console to later allow access to the keychain. Both of this can be done with osascript.

Which app needs a command-line to work properly? What do you want to do?

--greg

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