Re: Environment/permissions on NSTask-launched app

FROM : Brad Peterson
DATE : Tue Jul 25 10:47:12 2006

--- Sherm Pendley <<email_removed>> wrote:
> Isn't that just what Brad's trying to do? The parent
> process that's 
> launching his app is running as root, and is not
> supposed to run his 
> app as root. Geteuid() returns 501, but trying to
> access AddressBook 
> gives him the same error it does if he tries to run
> his app as root. 
> He doesn't get that error if he runs it normally.


That's exactly it. You've got it. (Thanks for sticking
it out.)

> In other words, he's not trying to run his app as
> root, he's trying 
> to figure out what the parent app is doing that's
> triggering this error.
>
> Brad, two questions: What does NSUserName() and
> NSHomeDirectory() 
> give you? And, what's the parent app?


Unfortunately, they also appear to give the correct
(that is, non-root user) information.  The parent app
is a server that communicates using a known network
port, and therefore (so it's been explained to me)
must run as root.

I'd change the port if I could, but it was chosen for
us by the clients we need to support, sadly.

Thanks,

B

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