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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 "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 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 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 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 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/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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