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Re: Changing Location without Authentication?
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Re: Changing Location without Authentication?


  • Subject: Re: Changing Location without Authentication?
  • From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:58:46 -0800

--- At Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:52:54 -0500, Allan Nathanson wrote:

>The "Location Menu" uses the "/usr/sbin/scselect" command to change
>locations. This command does not require authentication (it is
>setUID==0).

Thanks Allan. That helps a lot. It appears that there is a bug in the
code for the Location menu then.

If I am a non-admin user, I can change the location using scselect from
the Terminal and I can change the location from the Network Preferences
panel. However, using the Location menu I can change -to- Automatic, but
I cant change -to- anything else. So once I am in Automatic, I cant
change to out. Automatic is configuration 0, also listed first.

Odd.

Thanks for the pointer to the tool.

>On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Duane Murphy wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to change the current "Location" in OS X without being
>> authenticated? Is the "Location Menu" somehow authenticated or how does
>> it work?
>>
>> Presently I am using the SystemConfiguration Framework, but this
>> requires
>> authentication.

...Duane
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