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Re: access root's default database
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Re: access root's default database


  • Subject: Re: access root's default database
  • From: Garth Cummings <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:27:51 -0700

Hi Braden,

On May 20, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Braden Thomas wrote:

I'm trying to access the root user's default database from a PreferencePane. I tried using AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges with the system.privilege.admin right and just executing the /usr/ bin/defaults binary, but for some reason I wasn't accessing the same defaults that I would see if I ran defaults as root. What is the best way to do this? What is the right that I need to request in order to access root's defaults database?

This may not be the best place for your questions...PreferencePanes are a Cocoa technology so the right people may be on the cocoa-dev list instead.


The team that maintains AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges hangs out on the apple-cdsa list.

Good luck,
--gc
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