Re: Security Info
Re: Security Info
- Subject: Re: Security Info
- From: Allan Nathanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:43:39 -0700
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 02:04 AM, Quinn wrote:
At 21:42 +0100 7/10/02, email@hidden wrote:
I have noticed the scselect and scutil, which I'm guessing the
network
system preference use's itself,
That's not right. scselect is used by the Apple menu to switch
locations, and scutil is a debugging tool that is only designed for
interactive use. Neither of these are the System Preferences backend.
Actually, I believe that the Network Prefs pane also uses the
"scselect" command (at least in some instances) to change locations.
This will also helps if a network administrator wants to
removed scselect, he can disable the changing of these, but if we
adding
other utils to do this, this just make's this a more of a headache
and a
security issue, as I guess everyone would be using a single point of
entry
I'm not sure what Apple's official take on this is (Allan?), but it
seems that fork/exec'ing scselect is a pretty reasonable approach to
switching locations.
Calling fork/exec of the "scselect" command is certainly quick. It
also alleviates the need to write a setUID application/helper. Of
course, having the command isn't the answer for everyone. Some would
prefer a programatic API and my hopes are provide something at some
later date in time.
That is, after all, what it's designed for.
Yup.
- Allan
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