[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript terminology caching #2

[has]

Jack wrote:

>>>There's all sorts of issues with starting daemons (like: will the
>>>daemon be system-wide or per-user?
>>
>>It's a user-level process, so I guess that makes it per-user.
>
>No, what I meant was "if user Jack starts ATS, then user Has logs in 
>(either via the net or with fast user switching), will he use Jack's 
>ATS?".

Ah, I get you now. Hmm, good question.

I don't know about fast user switching (since I'm on 10.2), but as 
far as networked use goes. I think Remote Apple Events allow user HAS 
to remotely control the running applications of Jack, the locally 
logged-in user, if Jack has RAE enabled and HAS has an account with 
admin privileges on that machine (or else found Jack's password on a 
Post-It note;). e.g.:

	tell application "finder" of machine "eppc://has:foobar@0.0.0.11"
		get name of home
	end tell
	--> "Jack"

So in the Python equivalent, ATS on HAS's machine will use Jack's ATS 
to get the terminology for Jack's running applications, allowing HAS 
to script Jack's applications using appscript. I'm not sure there's 
any other way you can do it; since Apple events are tied up with 
GUI-based Mac apps, which are designed for running by a locally 
logged-in user rather than a remotely logged-in one. (This is about 
the point I start getting confused by the whole issue and think 
myself fortunate for not normally having to deal with this stuff 
myself.;)

I've not had much luck finding info on RAEs and related security 
issues (e.g. searching apple.com turned up nothing very useful), but 
I'll keep looking and see what turns up.

Thanks,

has
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