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Re: Subclassing NSUserDefaultsController
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Re: Subclassing NSUserDefaultsController


  • Subject: Re: Subclassing NSUserDefaultsController
  • From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:44:30 -0700

Thomas Bauer <mailto:email@hidden> wrote (Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:39 AM +1200):

In some cases my application needs to modify and get the user defaults from a
different user than the one it is launched under. Since this affects not only
things done programmatically, but also parts of the user interface that use
bindings, I was thinking an elegant solution would be to make the
SharedDefaults controller be a subclass and override the designated init
method to either be initialized by sharedDefaults or a NSDefaults object
created with initWithUser. Unfortunately this does not seem to work on a basic
level.

At that basic level, this should never work. Your user (UID) should never, under normal circumstances, have access to any non-public files belonging to another user, especially not their ~/Library folder. So even if you could coerce NSUserDefaults or CFPerferences to access the file, the basic security model of Mac OS X / BSD would prevent them from reading or changing it.


The straightforward solution is to create a SetUID helper or daemon process that you can launch and will run as that other user. It could be an SUID->root process that dynamically changes its EUID to the user you need to affect, or be a pre-configured SUID->user (probably the easiest solution) that always runs as that particular user. Your process could launch the helper then communicate what changes you need to make via inter-process messaging.

--
James Bucanek

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