Re: Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 18:23:59 -0500 Ben Key <address@hidden> wrote: 

BK> This item seems to exactly describe the Login keychain file in Mac
BK> OS X.  The default item seems to be analogous to the default
BK> keychain in Mac OS X, which is by default the Login keychain but can
BK> be changed to a user defined keychain file using the Keychain Access
BK> application.

BK> As for your question about whether you can have any serviceName in any file,
BK> yes you can.  There is no dependency or connection between the serviceName
BK> parameter and the keychain file.

OK, I see.  The serviceName is just things like "SSH" and "FTP" right?

If that's the case, then yes, you want to treat the name parameter as
the name of the keychain file.  I guess it's called "collection" in the
Secrets API.

Ted