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OS X Keychain integration

Revision as of 22:10, 26 September 2006 by Davenrathh (talk | contribs) (Project Leader(s))

Project Name

OS X Keychain

Project Description

The goal of this project is to enable Firefox to use the Keychain service available in Mac OS X in order to store saved passwords for consistency and ease of use.

Related links:

Keychain Services Reference
Mac OS X Security
BugZilla Reference
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Password_Manager

Project Leader(s)

Project Contributor(s)

N/A

Project Details

How to approach the problem:
  1. Analyze the existing code for Keychain support in the Camino browser.
  2. Review the existing Keychain support code in the Firefox codebase which was originally added by Apple.

Project News

  • Moe (Spet, 16 2006): I have tried to contact stuart on irc who idles both #seneca and #camino. I think he will be the go to guy if we have any questions in regards to OS X related Mozilla stuff. He should be able to point us to the right direction.
  • September 16, 2006 - Dave is looking into getting Mac hardware access for this, and should know soon. Also, you want to ping mento for this, not stuart. mento is in #seneca.
  • September 22, 2006 - Moe and Phil ventured through the firefox code and found some implementations of the osx keychain that were disabled. We enabled those options and Moe will recompile the code over night so we can further our tests tomorrow.
  • September 23, 2006 - Moe tested his newly built firefox with the osx options enabled, but nothing happened. Both Phil and Moe then continued to look through the firefox code and located various instances of logic towards Apple's keychain.