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Re: kext ownership settings

Chuck,

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:39:55 -0500
> Subject: kext ownership settings
> From: chuck remes <email@hidden>
> To: email@hidden
>
> Under darwin 6.0 (os x 10.2) the kernel now enforces some security on
> kexts by requiring they be owned by root, be in the wheel group, and
> probably have mode 755 on the directories.
>
> This makes doing ProjectBuilder builds really tough when running the
> build as a regular user and not root. Yep, PB complains that it can't
> overwrite the kext because of ownership.
>
> It's a real pain to go in and "sudo rm -rf my.kext" every time I want
> to build it and then "sudo chown -R root:wheel my.kext" afterwards.
>
> Anyone have a slick way of setting up PB so it can get around this?
>
> cr
>
> --__--__--

I posted a similar message last week with a response suggesting that I post
the message to the Project Builders group list (which I have not yet done).

I would be really be interested in a solution to this problem as I think it
is also a pain to rm -r myKext.kext in addition to changing the owner and
group each time I rebuild my driver.

There were a few threads in the archives which stated that the problem is
resolved by adding the following to your target's Build Settings:

INSTALL_GROUP = wheel
INSTALL_OWNER = root

I tried this and it did not change the owner and group as I had hoped. I
tried logging in as root and a user to no avail. Please let me know if this
works for you.

Take care,

Tim
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