Re: Environment/permissions on NSTask-launched app
Re: Environment/permissions on NSTask-launched app
- Subject: Re: Environment/permissions on NSTask-launched app
- From: Brad Peterson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
Well, now I'm not sure that setuid() the right
approach either. A quick test from the sub-task's
output shows that
NSLog(@"gid = %d", getgid());
also shows 501.
A further quick & dirty test shows that the main app
is also unable to write data to the address book. So,
it's likely that the sub-task is inheriting something
from the parent despite the fact that (a) that's not
how it's supposed to work and (b) the sub-task insists
it's running as 501 and not as root.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. :)
Many thanks!
B
--- Sherm Pendley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Brad Peterson wrote:
>
> > I've confirmed that the sub-task isn't running as
> root
> > (though I don't know why that would make a
> difference)
> > by logging the results of a getgid() call. (501
> was
> > the result.)
>
> Getgid() gets the group id. And, it gets the *real*
> group id, not the
> effective group id, which is what running with
> elevated group
> privileges would change.
>
> Getuid() and geteuid() report the real and effective
> user id, and you
> can use setuid() to lower the privileges of a
> running app, if you
> need to.
>
> sherm--
>
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>
>
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