Well… That was an Unexpected Surprise

Whew! The world is back in order, and everything is just hunky-dory now that I’ve solved the Yasu authentication issue as it relates to the new Apple Security Update 2005-009 released yesterday afternoon.

Imagine my joy as I was suddenly slammed with tons of email (okay, it was really only 5) telling me that my app was suddenly borked before I had even gotten around to applying the patch myself. Oh the humiliation… Well, not really, but I do apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused anyone.

Actually, as I said in my last post, this is a good thing, all in all. I originally had to write my own special authenticating binary which was tucked away inside of the Yasu application in order for it to allow proper root user access. This was due to the fact that Apple had broken the setuid shell as it related to AppleScript in hopes of making Tiger more secure. They found out quick that it was a goof, and had promised a fix, but it’s taken them until now to sort it out.

Hopefully, this will be the last tweak I’ll need to make to the 1.x.x version. Version 2 is coming along nicely with several new features to make it even more “handy-dandy” that it was before. Keep an eye out.