Re: launchd and programmatic access
Re: launchd and programmatic access
- Subject: Re: launchd and programmatic access
- From: Damien Sorresso <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:26:32 -0700
On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Damien Sorresso wrote:
The pref pane includes a setuid helper application that does
proper authorization, etc.
Your privileged operations should be done in your daemon. We
heavily discourage the use of setuid tools, and we're actively
trying to cleanse the system of them.
Just so I understand what you're advocating here... Are you
seriously suggesting that the entire daemon should be privileged
rather than using a privilege-separated helper tool? That seems to
run counter to generally accepted security practices (make
privileged things as small as possible), so I must be mis-parsing
your recommendations here...
He mentioned that his daemon's plist lives in /Library/LaunchDaemons
and that it was a privileged operation to talk to it, and I mistakenly
interpreted that as "My daemon is running as root", which is not
necessarily true.
So no, I'm not advocating that all system-wide daemons run as root; I
mistakenly concluded that his was.
--
Damien Sorresso
BSD Engineering
Apple Inc.
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