Re: StartupItemContext & Darwin 6.x
Re: StartupItemContext & Darwin 6.x
- Subject: Re: StartupItemContext & Darwin 6.x
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:52:49 +0100
On dimanche, février 27, 2005, at 08:46 PM, Shantonu Sen wrote:
On Feb 27, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On dimanche, février 27, 2005, at 07:38 PM, Shantonu Sen wrote:
In Darwin 6, you can ssh in to the machine as root and start the
daemon. In Darwin 6, ssh connections did not get put into their own
bootstrap subset context, and used the context of the master sshd,
which was the root bootstrap context.
Interesting information.
But it would require to know the root password and have ssh running.
Using StartupItemContext also requires knowing the root password, or
some proxy to obtain root privileges (like sudo).
If you have an existing networking service like ssh, telnet, or rsh,
running on the Darwin 6 machine, you can connect to localhost as
yourself, and then sudo your way to success.
Darwin 7 lets you skip the localhost connection, but you probably
still need to use sudo or AEWP or a setuid tool or some combination.
In my case, I would be in the postflight script of an Installer.app
package requiring root authentication, so no problem, no root password.
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