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Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Mark Dalrymple
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
23h 48m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Keychain Access

Each keychain item defines how it may be accessed. The information about access privileges is kept in a SecAccessRef structure. To get the access structure for a particular keychain item, you use the following function:

OSStatus SecKeychainItemCopyAccess (SecKeychainItemRef  item,
                                    SecAccessRef *access);

To change the access on a keychain item, you edit the SecAccessRef and write it to the keychain item using:

OSStatus SecKeychainItemSetAccess (SecKeychainItemRef item, 
                                   SecAccessRef access);

What, then, is a SecAccessRef? You can get a list of access control lists (ACLs) from it. Each access list has a list of trusted applications that are allowed to access the keychain item. Some applications can access the keychain item only ...

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