I want to be able to develop a login screen extension for password resets. Instead of standard mac login options i want to have a button which when user clicks will take me to my login reset page.
My question is where do i even begin reading about this stuff? I am new to Apple development hence the Naive question.
Any pointers would be helpful.
Thanks
There are three standard ways to run at login:
You can implement a pre-login launchd agent, which runs asynchronously with respect to login.
You can implement an authorisation plug-in, which is run synchronously during the login process.
As a specific case of the previous, your authorisation plug-in can use the
SFAuthorizationPluginViewEach of these is a complex topic in its own right. A good place to start is Technote 2228 Running At Login, which covers a bunch of the basics.
IMPORTANT That technote is almost 10 years old now, so it has a bunch of broken links and some of the low-level details have changed. However, the overall architecture described by the technote is still valid. If you hit something you don’t understand, just post your follow-up questions here.
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