DO and authentication
DO and authentication
- Subject: DO and authentication
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:32:39 -0600
I have a program that uses a Foundation tool to do things as root. I'm
making the main program communicate with the tool using DO. I've read
what documentation I could find on authenticating messages via DO, but
I'm still wondering what is a good way to verify the identity of the
client. Perhaps I'm just being paranoid, but I just want to make sure
some other app doesn't start using my tool while I am running it, and
doing nasty stuff with root access. By searching the archives and
elsewhere, I've found information on how to authenticate messages, but I
have not found anything on a good method to verify the identity of the
message sender. Anyone know a good way to do this? I am a newbie in most
things security-related...
Thanks,
Charles