Re: Running a root process.

In article <130b7l66kha8f20@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 SM Ryan <wyrmwif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I would like to do some code like edit Apache configuration
> that requires uid root. What I can do is just install a setuid
> root and just make the changes unannounced. What I would like
> to do use some function like this
> 
> 	suexec(...) - Display the security dialog and on successful
> 		identification as an administrator user and password,
> 		exec the program ... as setuid root.
> 
> but after repeated attempts to get through Apple's do***entation
> I don't know if the function exists or is possible. Because I do
> have a setuid root installer, I can install setuid root programs,
> I just think it's bad form to run setuid root without the computer's
> owner realizing that I'm doing so and authourising it.

<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Security/idxAuthorization-date.html>

hth

Ben

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