Re: Environment/permissions on NSTask-launched app

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Thu Jul 20 04:10:17 2006

On 19 Jul 06, at 17:17, Brad Peterson wrote:
> I'll try that, thank you. What value would you suggest
> for setuid()? Should I just use 501 again?


"501" will only work for the first user to create an account on the 
machine, as that's the first autogenerated user ID.

Please don't write applications that run as root without a *full* 
understanding of the security implications thereof!