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Re: setuid installer?




On Apr 3, 2009, at 15:55:58, Karl Kuehn wrote:

I don't know why the c program is not working, but in 10.5 Apple restricted setuid to only being available to compiled programs (ie: no scripts).

It occurs to me...how do pre- and post-flight scripts get to do privileged operations during installation? Or can they not?


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