Beware of sudo on OS X

Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by coldtea on Sunday August 16, 2015 @09:14PM (#10070965)

>Although, OS X is a bit like Windows. A bad program running in userspace can essentially ruin your system as much as a program running as root.

Erm, OS X has sandboxing. So, no. Except if you use unsigned third party stuff.

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Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by __david__ on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:48AM (#10071415)

I think he only sandboxed apps are the ones from the App Store—Signing is orthogonal to sandboxing. Even signed apps that you get from anywhere other than then App Store aren't sandboxed.

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Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by comex on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:51AM (#10071907)

You can sandbox non-App Store apps the same way as App Store ones, you're just not forced to. And so developers don't.

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Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by driverdan on Sunday August 16, 2015 @11:19PM (#10071219)

Which is pretty much everyone reading HN.

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Re:Beware of sudo on OS X by coldtea on Sunday August 16, 2015 @11:25PM (#10071240)

In which case it's no different to Linux, OpenBSD or whatever.

As long as its your account files that matter, and you're running an app un-sandboxed, then it has access to them.

Nothing Windows or OS X particular about it.

As about "ruining your system", no, without root privileges it cannot, in either OS X or Windows. Of course it can if there's a privilege escalation bug, but there are tons of those for GNU/Gnome/KDE packages too.

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