Cocoa interface to MacOS X Keychain - objective-c

Question

I've got a bit of Mac code that needs to store, access and update passwords in order to connect users with a web API. The right place to put this information should be the Mac Keychain, but there doesn't seem to be a cocoa interface (see this answer) -- is this still correct?
I've looked at Apple's Keychain documentation, and the API seems incredibly clunky. I can store to it and retrieve records, but anything more complex seems to require a lot of thought as to what might go wrong (see this list of error codes).
Is there a better interface to the Mac keychain, aside from slogging through the C code? The closest I've come is EMKeychain but it seems like it needs a bit of work (e.g. no error handling code aside from spitting to the console).

Answer 1

You should take a look at SSKeychain. Works great, awesome code.

Answer 2

Too late answer but would be good for future help. Below is what I did to save the password in Keychain of Mac
#pragma -mark Password save in Keychain
-(NSURLProtectionSpace *)createProtectionSpaceForBasicAuthentication{
NSURLProtectionSpace *protectionSpace = [[NSURLProtectionSpace alloc]
initWithHost:#"http://yourURLHere"
port:1804 //add Your port here
protocol:#"http" //can be pass as nil
realm:nil
authenticationMethod:NSURLAuthenticationMethodHTTPBasic];
return protectionSpace;
}
-(void )createCredentialForUsername:(NSString *)username Password:(NSString *)password{
NSURLCredential *credentialObject;
credentialObject = [NSURLCredential credentialWithUser:username password:password persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistencePermanent];
[[NSURLCredentialStorage sharedCredentialStorage] setCredential:credentialObject forProtectionSpace:[self createProtectionSpaceForBasicAuthentication]];
}
For saving password
- (IBAction)saveButtonClicked:(id)sender {
[self createCredentialForUsername:#"User_Name" Password:#"Your_Pass"];
}
for fetching the password
NSURLCredential *credential;
NSDictionary *credentials;
credentials = [[NSURLCredentialStorage sharedCredentialStorage] credentialsForProtectionSpace:[self createProtectionSpaceForBasicAuthentication]];
credential = [credentials.objectEnumerator nextObject];
NSLog(#"Username: %# and password %#", credential.user, credential.password);
When we run the app to fetch password, we will get user action prompt for keychain access.

Answer 3

Late to the party, as always, but I can recommend UICKeyChainStore.