On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > What is creating the log files and where? If you control the creation of the > log files, save them somewhere that all users have read only access to. If > not then things become really problematic here. These are security log files and I can't modify them or have control over them. There are where they are. > > First, sudo is not going to work for a non-admin account. It only works when > you log into a session with admin credentials. Second, you would have to know > the admin credentials first, before you could sudo. If this is for a > commercial app then I think you are out of luck. It is an in house app to be used by people with admin accounts to do audits > > I suppose you could ask the user for admin credentials, then use those creds > to shell out and change the permissions of the log files in question but > YIKES! Rather, you should change the permissions on the folder containing the > log files. > > Other than that you will have to ask your end users to change the permissions > themselves, or have an Administrator do it. Messy. > > Bob > > > On Nov 24, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > >> I have a Mac application to read log files that need administrative >> permission (sudo) to read. How can I prompt for this? >> >> Bill Vlahos >> _________________ >> InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life >> information with you, accessible, and secure. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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