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: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:44:04 -0800
On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:32 PM, David Penton wrote: Why is it that a development tool should need to access resources other than "my own", i.e. memory, processes etc. belonging to the logged-in user? Access to internals of other processes is considered sensitive, even if those processes belong to the same user, because it breaks the walls that keep processes from interfering with each other. So ordinarily your app can spray bits all over memory but that won't affect SystemUIServer or Finder; but by misusing debugger-type APIs, it can easily smash your other processes.
Maybe this is a newer level of paranoia, or maybe the Unix systems you were using before gave all user accounts permission to do things like this (since anyone using the machine must be a programmer, right?)
—Jens |
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