Hello i have a daemon whose owner is wheel:root and which provides a Unix Domain Socket where i can send/receive datagrams from my custom Preference Pane. The problem i have is that a socket, installed by a root-process can't be "sent" by a non-root application, like System Preferences.
I guess i can deal with the problem the following way: i create one more helper executable, which is "suid'ed", and "chown'ed" to root, thus i can launch this helper tool simply for fork/exec'ing from my non-root Preference Pane. This way i should establish two "communication channels": MyPrefPane ------------(pipe or UnDomSock)----------> HelperTool -----------(UnDomSocket)------> Daemon I am wondering if i could somehow increase System Preference's privileges for a while, write to Daemon's socket directly, and decrease privileges. Is that possble? I have read AuthorizationServices reference, but still feel a little misty about what can and can't be possibly done. How do all other preference panes work? do they all load helper tools, and there's no detour? Thanks _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
