Re: Using the security framework
Re: Using the security framework
- Subject: Re: Using the security framework
- From: Peter N Lewis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:36:13 +0900
At 18:50 -0600 3/1/09, Joe Turner wrote:
I am making a hard drive cloner/backuper, and to do some deleting
and copying, I need to use the security framework. What I need to be
able to do is have the user type in their password one time, and
then it would give me system.privilege.admin rights until a time
that they want to unauthorized it (could be days, weeks, months,
years). I have looked through the security framework, but have not
really found how to have one system.privilege.admin authorization,
and have it last a long time. So, if anyone could point me in the
right direction with this, like what methods to use, and what
parameters to use.
One way to do this is to have a second tool that runs as root. You
need to ask for admin permissions the first time to enable suid mode
on the tool, but after that the tool will run as root with full
privileges.
Naturally, this has all the inherent security implications of that of
any suid root tool, and the tool must now defend against possible
misuse. Some security suggestions include:
* Code sign both your application and your tool and verify both
signatures before applying the suid bit.
* Strictly limit the actions of the tool.
* Ensure requests to the tool are processed only if they come from
your properly signed application.
* Strictly minimize the tools code to minimize the chance of security
related bugs.
* Limit the use of external frameworks in the tool to minimize the
chance of security issues.
Enjoy,
Peter.
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