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could you explain why amanda or what ever application needs to be |
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root:amanda ? i would think that running it as root would work. if |
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it wont, do you know why ? |
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On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Michael Weiser wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:40:31AM -0500, John Gibson wrote: |
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>>> The biggest problem you're going to run into is that in "root-mode" |
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>>> (privileged), Prefix will currently act as if it is |
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>>> "unprivileged", so |
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>>> don't create any users, or chmod to any users other than the running |
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>>> user itself. |
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> This would be a real showstoppper for me, especially permissions. |
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>>> This is a known limitation, that we obviously look for a solution |
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>>> for. |
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>>> Another Google Summer of Code project? |
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> Is there an easy (or hard ;) way to switch Prefix back into privileged |
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> mode? |
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> Are there hooks for (re-)adding the useradd/del functionality? There's |
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> guides on creating users using dscl which should make it easy to |
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> provide |
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> a useradd/del replacement. |
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>> I don't know how workable this would be, but we could run prefix |
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>> as an |
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>> unprivileged user and then use sudo in the user creation functions / |
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>> chowning portions. That way you wouldn't have to worry about prefix |
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>> trampling stuff outside of the prefix, but still get some of the |
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>> other |
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>> features of being root. |
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> I think, I'll give this one a go: http://www.macpronews.com/ |
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> 2008/0117.html. |
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> This should be implementable as a FEATURES="sandbox-macos" |
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> Greetrings, |
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> Micha |
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