> Unless I'm forgetting something basic, you should be able to connect to your > daemon's socket from a non-root process if you first change the permissions > on the socket (using chmod, as if it were a file). The man page for the > unix-domain protocol family alludes to this briefly: > >> All addresses are absolute- or relative-pathnames of other UNIX-domain >> sockets. Normal >filesystem access-control mechanisms are also applied when >> referencing pathnames; e.g., the >destination of a connect(2) or sendto(2) >> must be writable.
I dont want everyone to be able to write to that socket, the point is to let only System Preferences (for example, by displaying "Autorization dialog box" - like "User Accounts" preference pane, for example. I am wondering if that is possible to achieve using Authorization Server and how Thank you _______________________________________________ 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
