Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
- Subject: Re: Installer Plugins - how to run as root?
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:29:50 -0700
At 12:14 PM -0700 5/11/07, Andy Kim wrote:
Hi all,
My question is as follow:
* How can I get the Installer Plugins to run as root?
You can't. The Installer.app process does not run as root, ever, for
very good security reasons. Installer plugins are UI plugins whose
code runs inside the Installer.app process.
You can, however, have your plugins communicate with your install
scripts, which do run as root. Have your plugin get the installer's
session temp directory, which I think is also passed to the scripts.
You can drop a cookie file in there with the data you want to pass
from the plugin to your script.
-pmb
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