DevToolsSecurity(1) BSD General Commands Manual DevToolsSecurity(1)
NAME
DevToolsSecurity -- Change the security authorization policies for devel-
oper systems
SYNOPSIS
DevToolsSecurity
DESCRIPTION
This tool changes the security authorization policies for use of Apple-
code-signed debugger and performance analysis tools on development sys-
tems.
On normal user systems, the first time in a given login session that any
such Apple-code-signed debugger or performance analysis tools are used to
examine one of the user's processes, the user is queried for an admin-
istator password for authorization.
When the Xcode developer tools are installed, the post-install script
automatically runs this DevToolsSecurity tool to change the authorization
policies, such that a user who is a member of either the admin group or
the _developer group does not need to enter an additional password to use
the Apple-code-signed debugger or performance analysis tools.
Developers will typically not need to run this tool manually. If for
some reason it needs to be run manually, it can be run from the usr/bin
folder inside the Xcode tools folder. For example, if the Xcode tools
were installed at /Developer, then the script can be run from /Devel-
oper/usr/bin/DevToolsSecurity.
BSD Feb. 23, 2009 BSD
Mac OS X 10.6 - Generated Thu Sep 17 20:07:05 CDT 2009