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Re: Remove all admin->root authorization prompts from OSX
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:09:04 -0800
On 24 Jan 07, at 17:20, K F (lists) wrote:
http://www.petitiononline.com/31337OSX/petition.html
The petition reads, in part:
In efforts to minimize the apparently unnecessary dialog boxes that ask for permission to go from gid=admin to uid=root we are hereby petitioning Apple to remove any further use of dialog boxes when making the transition from gid=0 to uid=0. Since the admin group is ALREADY root why can't you just stop asking us for authorization?
Do your research next time. gid=admin isn't root:
powerbook% id uid=1000(me) gid=1000(me) groups=1000(me), 81(appserveradm), 79 (appserverusr), 80(admin)
... it's just an ordinary group with sudo, write privileges to some special folders, and some extra SecurityAgent magic in /etc/ authorization. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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