Hi all,
On osx, I’m developing a small library hosted on rubyforge [1]. A
rakefile task takes care of automatizing the release process.
The code snippet shown here allows the login information (username and
password) to be retrieved from osx’s keychain [2]:
def keychain_login(domain)
info = security find-internet-password -s '#{domain}' -g 2>&1.split(“\n”)
username = info.grep(/^\s*"acct"<blob>="(.)"$/){$1}.first
password = info.grep(/^password: "(.)"$/){$1}.first
[username, password]
end
keychain_login(‘rubyforge.org’)
This way, the username and password don’t have to be hardcoded in the
script nor typed at run-time, nor set in the environment.
I hope this can make life slightly easier for my fellow developers on
osx.
Ciao
Stefano
[1] http://intervals.rubyforge.org/
[2] To have your username/password stored in the keychain, use Safari
to login on rubyforge at least once.