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Special Forums Cybersecurity Best practice to allow 3rd party app to read messages file. Post 302974611 by slwiley on Wednesday 1st of June 2016 10:39:16 AM
Old 06-01-2016
Best practice to allow 3rd party app to read messages file.

What is the best practice to allow a 3rd party health monitoring app to read the messages file. Since messages is a system file and is owned by root the app cannot read the file. I don't want to run the app as root so how should I allow the app to read the file. The read function is actually built into the apps binary so its not using /bin/view or /bin/more to read messages which I believe stops me from being able to add the permissions in the sudoers file.

Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 

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ideviceinstaller(1)					      General Commands Manual					       ideviceinstaller(1)

NAME
ideviceinstaller - Manage iDevice apps SYNOPSIS
ideviceinstaller [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
Allows to install, upgrade, uninstall, archive, restore and enumerate installed or archived apps on iDevices. OPTIONS
General options: -d, --debug enable communication debugging. -U, --uuid UUID target specific device by its 40-digit device UUID. -h, --help prints usage information Commands: -l, --list-apps list apps installed on the device. Additional options: -o list_user list user apps only (apps installed by the user) This is the default. -o list_system list system apps only (apps available from the system firmware) -o list_all list all types of apps -o xml print output in xml format (PList) -i, --install ARCHIVE install app from a package file specified by ARCHIVE. -u, --uninstall APPID uninstall app specified by APPID. -g, --upgrade APPID upgrade app specified by APPID. -r, --restore APPID restore archived app specified by APPID. -L, --list-archives list archived applications on the device. Additional options: -o xml print output in xml format (PList) -a, --archive APPID archive app specified by APPID. Additional options: -o uninstall uninstall the package after making an archive -o app_only archive application data only -o copy=PATH copy the app archive to directory PATH when done -o remove only valid when copy=PATH is used: remove after copy -R, --remove-archive APPID remove app archive specified by APPID. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Martin Szulecki. ideviceinstaller(1)
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