site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Hello All, One of our installers installs a daemon to /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/. I have written a bash script to enforce the security recommendations in TN2083, which says that this directory, and all of its parents, must have certain permissions and must be owned by "root" in order to prevent an unauthorized process from substituting their own daemon in place of ours. Our problem is, one of our Beta users has "/" owned by "_spotlight", and so we fail to install due to the security checks in our preflight script as alluded to above. Disk Utility does not repair this problem. We are concerned that this will be a support issue, so our questions are: 1. Can we securely allow "/" to be owned by other than "root"? 2. Is it permissible for us to change the owner of "/" to "root"? 3. If either /Library/ or Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/ is not owned by "root" is it permissible for us to change the owner to "root"? Many Thanks, Monte Benaresh PACE Anti-Piracy _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com