Re: what's with the admin privilege business
Re: what's with the admin privilege business
- Subject: Re: what's with the admin privilege business
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:19:07 -0800
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:57 PM, David Penton <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 2010-01-25, at 11:40 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:27 PM, David Penton <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I expect this may be addressed somewhere in the mailing list archives, but I
>>> suck at finding such things.
>>> Here is the quote from xcode 3.2.1 release notes:
>>> Standard user accounts are be asked to authorize developer privileges with
>>> either an admin or developer group user and password once per log-in session
>>> when debugging or using the performance tools.
>>> What the heck is this about? Will it go away soon? It just seems wrong to
>>> me. I do nearly everything on my machine from a non-privileged account out
>>> of an excess of caution.
>>> If anyone could point me in the direction of help on adding users to groups
>>> on Snow Leopard (not server) it might ease my annoyance with this.
>>
>> this command:
>>
>> sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership foo
>>
>> will add the user "foo" to the _developer group
>>
>> --
>> Clark S. Cox III
>> email@hidden
>
> Thanks a lot, Clark. That worked. What I mean to say is that my account now appears in the xml _developer.plist file. I'll watch to see what xcode does with this.
>
> So - since it seems you possess knowledge of the arcane 'dscl' command, can you tell me whether there is a nice GUI for such stuff?
I don't know, I've never really had enough of a need for one to seek
one out. That said, dscl does have a pretty descriptive man page.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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