Re: Admin programs and password
Re: Admin programs and password
- Subject: Re: Admin programs and password
- From: David Rehring <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:45:32 -0700
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Hi,
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I have noticed that a number of admin applications ask for a
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admin user/password before doing any work. Is the dialogue
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shown provided by the system or by the application, in other
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words does the application ask for the password, or does it
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delegate this task to the system who then provides a session
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authorization key?
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I ask this because I worrying about a potential security issues
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if it is indeed the application that handles the user/password.
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Andre
How could you tell [as an end-user] whether the application is controlling
the dialog or if the app. has properly used some Apple framework to control
the dialog [if it existed, as I don't know if it does or not]?
Later,
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