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apettinen / keychain_password.py
Created October 3, 2017 12:27 — forked from pudquick/keychain_password.py
Storing and retrieving a generic password in the login.keychain in macOS via python and pyobjc
import objc
from ctypes import c_char
from Foundation import NSBundle
Security = NSBundle.bundleWithIdentifier_('com.apple.security')
S_functions = [
('SecKeychainGetTypeID', 'I'),
('SecKeychainItemGetTypeID', 'I'),
('SecKeychainAddGenericPassword', 'i^{OpaqueSecKeychainRef=}I*I*I*o^^{OpaqueSecKeychainItemRef}'),
('SecKeychainOpen', 'i*o^^{OpaqueSecKeychainRef}'),
#!/usr/bin/python
# As written, this requires the following:
# - OS X 10.6+ (may not work in 10.10, haven't tested)
# - python 2.6 or 2.7 (for collections.namedtuple usage, should be fine as default python in 10.6 is 2.6)
# - pyObjC (as such, recommended to be used with native OS X python install)
# Only tested and confirmed to work against 10.9.5
# Run with root