On Dec 23, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Madhavi Gundeti <madhavi.gundet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am developing a daemon which runs as root That’s not recommended, because the daemon will have the ability to do all kinds of bad things. A bug could destroy someone’s system, or worse, a security hole in your code could let an attacker take over the OS. It’s best to follow the “Principle of least privilege”: run the daemon as a separate account and give that account only the privileges it needs. Or run as an agent process under the current user’s account. Apple has a tech note about daemons and agents that goes into this. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
