[Mono-dev] setuid application

[Gladish, Jacob]

Yes, that's what I'm doing. I had an .exe, now I have a native app that does little more than loads and runs my .exe and its main(). But now I need to compile that native app for 4 different platforms.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Pryor [mailto:jonpryor at vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:08 PM
To: Gladish, Jacob
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] setuid application

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 12:00 -0500, Gladish, Jacob wrote:
> Before proceeding with my current plan, I wanted to get any feedback
> from anyone who may have explored building a mono app that has setuid.
> My application is mostly managed code, with a few p/invoke calls, but
> it's been pretty platform agnostic thus far. I need to have setuid
> privileges on my app, and the best way I have come up with so far is
> to have a small native app that acts as a host that has setuid on it.
> I certainly don't want to change the permissions on /usr/bin/mono.
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?

If you need a native app anyway (which makes sense, for the reasons you
specified) then it might make sense to embed the mono library and start
your managed code using the embedding API:

        http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?tlink=root:/embed

There are several examples as well:

        http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/mono/samples/embed/

 - Jon



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