Keychain access and new builds

[Lorenzo Thurman]

I have an app which accesses the Keychain. If I use a given build
repeatedly, I am only prompted for permission to access the item only on
the first attempt, at which point I choose "Allows Allow" and of course,
I'm never prompted for this build again. When I rebuild my app, I get
prompted again. How can I stop this? The path of the app never changes,
so how can I stop being prompted everytime I build?
Thanks

[matt neuburg]

In <lorenzo-CF1735.09375323082003@venerable.internal.thethurma ns.com>
Lorenzo Thurman wrote:

> I have an app which accesses the Keychain. If I use a given build
> repeatedly, I am only prompted for permission to access the item only
> on the first attempt, at which point I choose "Allows Allow" and of
> course, I'm never prompted for this build again. When I rebuild my
> app, I get prompted again. How can I stop this? The path of the app
> never changes, so how can I stop being prompted everytime I build?

I don't want you to stop being prompted! :) Evidently the keychain looks
at the mod date or something like that, and sees this as a different app.
That's good because it keeps you from writing a trojan horse that
substitutes for an app that I've already got, and to which I've already
granted keychain permission, and then reads all my passwords. m.

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[Miro Jurisic]

In article <lorenzo-CF1735.09375323082003@venerable.internal.thethurma ns.com>,
Lorenzo Thurman <lorenzo@theWONTWORKthethurmans.om> wrote:

> I have an app which accesses the Keychain. If I use a given build
> repeatedly, I am only prompted for permission to access the item only on
> the first attempt, at which point I choose "Allows Allow" and of course,
> I'm never prompted for this build again. When I rebuild my app, I get
> prompted again. How can I stop this? The path of the app never changes,
> so how can I stop being prompted everytime I build?

You can't because it would be a security hole for anybody to be able to modify
an application and assume the original application's privileges.

meeroh