Re: Communicating to a process started by root from non-root app
Re: Communicating to a process started by root from non-root app
- Subject: Re: Communicating to a process started by root from non-root app
- From: eveningnick eveningnick <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:22:07 +0200
> Unless I'm forgetting something basic, you should be able to connect to your daemon's socket from a non-root process if you first change the permissions on the socket (using chmod, as if it were a file). The man page for the unix-domain protocol family alludes to this briefly:
>
>> All addresses are absolute- or relative-pathnames of other UNIX-domain sockets. Normal >filesystem access-control mechanisms are also applied when referencing pathnames; e.g., the >destination of a connect(2) or sendto(2) must be writable.
I dont want everyone to be able to write to that socket, the point is
to let only System Preferences (for example, by displaying
"Autorization dialog box" - like "User Accounts" preference pane, for
example.
I am wondering if that is possible to achieve using Authorization Server and how
Thank you
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