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Creating an OS X authentication plugin

I need to create a plugin for OS X login mechanism so that I can unlock the screen other way than by typing a password. I know things like this already exist - Knock to unlock or Rohos USB key logon are examples. I found the sample code on ADC…
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Is it possible to replace the Mac login screen?

Is it possible to replace the Mac OS X login window, /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app, with a custom login window application? (See my rational for doing so.) I'm afraid my Cocoa programming skills are rudimentary. I do find it…
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Custom login/lock screen in OS X Mavericks

I'm trying to override the default login/lock screen in OS X to allow the user to login in other way than providing a password (think fingerprint scanner or how "Knock to unlock" works), and I'm looking for a way to do it for hours now - all I found…
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Customizing Mac login screen on Yosemite using SFAuthorizationPluginView

I'm trying to create a custom login screen on OSX Yosemite so that users can login using a different mechanism (not just typing credentials via keyboard). Currently, I am trying to achieve this by subclassing the SFAuthorizationPluginView class as…
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SecurityAgentPlugin not working anymore on Yosemite (SFAuthorizationPluginView)

We have developed an Authorization Plug-in that uses an SFAuthorizationPluginView to present UI to the user. This example is based on the "old" NameAndPassword example provided by Apple. We are using this Authorization Plug-in to unlock the session…
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OSX Security Framework NameAndPassword sample application

I am investigating security plugins using SFAuthorizationPluginView under Mac OSX and as a first step looking at the NameAndPassword sample application. The app builds OK but I cannot get it to authenticate. So does anyone have any experience of…
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SFAuthorizationPluginView example NameAndPassword hangs after button is pressed

I'm using the patched version of NameAndPassword as is here: https://github.com/skycocker/NameAndPassword When using this outside of the login window (e.g. system.login.screensaver or my own test right), with only the NameAndPassword plug-in, the…
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Accessing OS X keychain item from trusted application

I'm creating a keychain and then I'm adding an item with predefined trusted aplication list to it: SecKeychainCreate([keychainPath UTF8String], (UInt32)strlen(keychainPass), keychainPass, FALSE, NULL, &someKeychain); OSStatus someStatus =…
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Add button to OSX lock screen

Is it possible to alter the existing OSX lock screen ? For example if I wanted to add a button above the users profile image that says "Hello World" on click.. is this possible? The goal is to run an AppleScript when the button is clicked. EDIT -…
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Customize Login Screen Mac OSX (SFAuthorizationPluginView)

I'm trying to extend the login screen in MacOSX 10.9.1 (Mavericks). As I found out, this is possible by implementing a new authentication plugin and install it in to the authorization database. I've downloaded the NameAndPassword example which shows…
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Can I present My Loginwidow before MAC Login Window

I am trying to put my own customised login window before the standard MAC OS X Login window. Acutally , I need to have a stacking / chaining of window, so that original MAC Login window presented after my customised login window. I have already…
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Can I override loginwindow on Tiger?

My software authorizes the user prior to booting Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard.) I want to use SFAuthorizationPluginView to create a plugin to attempt to use our pre-boot authorization (cached securely) for user login to Mac OS X for single-sign-on…
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Error acessing keychain item from OS X authorization plugin

I'm using the NameAndPassword authorization plugin to login through the OS X lock screen (the fixed version of the plugin since original is broken). I need it to be able to access stored passwords somehow, and currently I'm trying to achieve this by…
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How to add a custom authentication plugin for MacOS Ventura?

I'm trying to create a custom authentication plugin for MacOS Ventura (instead of using a password i want to use a 4 digit code), and i was going to try and follow the code from this repository NameAndPassword, since i saw alot of positive feedback…
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OS X custom login authentication

My Requirement I need to authenticate the users at login with my own logic like, For eg: calling an external authentication server and using OpenDirectory in case if the server is not reachable. What I know I know that i need to create an…
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