PSUtil needs root account to retrieve processes information on Mac OS X

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PSUtil needs root account to retrieve processes information on Mac OS X #265

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

On Mac OS X, the PSUtil lib needs admin rights to retrieve processes 
informations.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nicolash...@gmail.com on 13 May 2012 at 6:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

We're aware of this problem and there's nothing we can do about it as it's 
dictated by the underlying OSX security model:
http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/list?can=1&q=setuid&colspec=ID+Summary+Ty
pe+Opsys+Status+Milestone+Opened+Owner+Progress&cells=tiles

Original comment by g.rodola on 13 May 2012 at 8:53

Changed state: Duplicate