Re: can emacs use the mac os x keychain?

[vm user]

On Apr 21, 1:36 pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:02:17 -0400 Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> BM> In article
> BM> <370a1897-25aa-418f-9631-1570dfa99...@z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
> BM>  vm user <emacs_u...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> hi all, several emacs packages such as tramp and VM ask for
> >> passwords.  does anyone know how to make emacs get the password from
> >> the mac os x keychain instead of having to type it every time?
> >> thanks...
>
> BM> If you're using tramp's ssh method, you can install SSHKeychain.
>
> Can this be called by other code?  I could add support in
> auth-source.el to look in the OS X keychain.
>
> Ted

does this mean that the keychain would be available to all emacs
application using passwords?  e.g. vm, tramp, epg...  that would
certainly be fantastic...