[launchd-dev] Getting user parameters as an agent

[Quinn]

At 23:14 +0200 17/11/07, Yaniv Aknin wrote:
>I'm writing a Tiger agent in Python and C which must run as root (it 
>enforces policies on the user). The agent should, however, know 
>which user it is enforcing (this is due to DiskArbitration's 
>inability to create a 'global' Approval session affecting all users).

It seems like this is where you're getting into trouble.  DiskArb is 
a daemon-safe framework.  I believe it should be possible for a 
daemon to implement a DAApprovalSessionRef that affects all mounts on 
the system.  Can you explain how you tried to do that and what went 
wrong?

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