hi ard, hello list... >> > 1) Can we have a feature to save the admin password somewhere so I >>> don't have to reenter it every time I launch? >> >> mmh i do not believe this is good idea. and actually it is not kismac, >> which asks for the password, but the security subsystem of macos x. >> kismac used to do this in another way (which would have allowed the >> saving, but it has been way too insecure). i will sleep over this, but >> i guess it would cause a lot of headaches... > > 'allow Kismac to use keychain' maybe? first of all this is not really possible in out case, since kismac basically uses internal routines of apple, which only allow a user to enter his password, but not a program. second i dont know whether it would be a good idea to store a root password inside a keychain, which can easily be copied to another system, and be decrypted there. i have another idea. i think it would be a better idea, to flag the shell programs, which actually load the driver as SUID root. this would give us the opportunity to run kismac without root privileges. only installation/deininstallation will require you to enter your password... this would of course also enable other users on your system to use kismac (which you might not like), but i think on laptop systems such cases are rather rare. mick