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Re: Authorization Question

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 01:26 am, Isaac Sherman wrote:

How would I make a program that always runs with Root access, but doesn't
ask for administrator authorization every time it's launched?
I've been working on the docs and example code, and it appears that I always
need said permission, contrary to the docs. After setting it's UID Bit, it
still requires me to authorize to execute it.

Are you talking about the setuid bit (the filesystem attribute)? If so, remember that you need to change the file so that it is owned by root if you want it to run with root privileges.

It's also worth mentioning that Cocoa programs that run with the setuid bit set are a security risk because of things like input managers. See pp. 838-839 of Cocoa Programming (Anguish, Buck & Yacktman) for an explanation of why you shouldn't do things that way.

Kind regards,

Alastair.
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