Re: How to become root
Re: How to become root
- Subject: Re: How to become root
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:27:40 +0700
On 16 Mar 2012, at 19:17, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>
> Le 16 mars 2012 à 12:33, Gerriet M. Denkmann a écrit :
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>> I have an app which needs to do (among other things) to call task_for_pid() which seems to work only for root.
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>> The modern way to do this is have a small companion tool which exchanges info with my app via XPC. Correct?
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>> I am also thinking about sandboxing (just as a learning experience). Or is root and sandboxing mutually exclusive?
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>> Then: how to make my companion tool run as root?
>> Is there a sandboxing entitlement like: com.apple.security.rootAllowed?
>> If not: what else to use?
>>
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> The short answer is don't expect to use task_for_pid with sandboxing. This function is restricted for good reasons.
Ok, so let's forget about sandboxing. Not very important - not aiming for the Mac Store.
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> What are you trying to do that require to get an other process mach port ?
Something like vmmap.
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