Index of Docs: Authorization Toolkit for Java

• Overview of Authorization Toolkit
  • Introduction
  • Compatibility
  • Design Overview and Origins
  • Running with Elevated Privileges
  • Other Documentation

• Available Implementations
  • Introduction
  • Compatibility
  • Plain Implementations
  • Mac OS X Implementations

• Tests and Examples
  • Introduction
  • The app.authkit.test.TestAuth Class
  • IMPORTANT WARNINGS
  • Example 0: Preliminaries
  • Example 1: External Command Run as Root
  • Example 2: External Command With Preauthorization
  • Example 3: External Commands, Session Released
  • Example 4: Default-Rule Shared Privileges
  • Example 5: Revoking Shared Privileges
  • Example 6: Which Java Am I?
  • Example 7: More External Commands as root
  • Example 8: Inter-process Piped Secret Identifier
  • Example 9: Attaching to a Privileged Session
  • Example 10: Attaching via Piped Secret Identifier

• Tamper-Resistant Mac OS X App-Bundles
  • Introduction
  • Trustworthiness
  • Applications
  • Maintaining Trustworthy Applications
  • What Lockdown WON'T Do
  • Distributing Locked-Down Applications
  • How to Lock Things Down

• AuthKit Tools
  • Introduction
  • Package: app.authkit.envoy
  • Package: app.authkit.tools
  • Tool: AppBundleLockdown
  • Tool: PerformAsRoot

• Release Notes and Revision History

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