Mono(permview)

💖 permview — Mono(permview) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're gonna read the permview manual page together and it's gonna be so good, i promise 🫶 this is from the Mono(permview) manual and it's literally the lil tool that peeks inside your assemblies and tells you what security vibes they're hiding.

✨ NAME ✨

permview — viewer for declarative security permission sets inside assemblies 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

permview [options] assembly

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does this icon actually do? this tool lets you list the declarative security attributes present in an assembly. those security attributes can live on the assembly level, on the classes, and on the methods — they're everywhere fr fr.

why do you care? because this tool is useful for diagnosing why an assembly won't load 😭 or why some class or method throws a SecurityException. it's giving detective energy 🔍✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -output filename — output all declarative security attributes related informations into the specified file 📝
• -xml | --xml | /XML — output all declarative security attributes in an XML format 🧚✨
• -decl | --decl | /DECL — show declarative security attributes on classes and methods. the default, without the -decl option, is to show only the assembly level permission sets 👑
• -? | /? | -h[elp] | /h[elp] — display help informations about the permview tool 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

okay here's where it gets real, watch this:

permview mscorlib.dll

this will show the minimum, optional and refused permissions sets (i.e. the assembly level security actions) that are compiled inside the mscorlib assembly. no cap 🔥

permview -decl permview.exe

this will show all (assembly, class or method level) declarative security attributes present in the permview.exe assembly. the full picture, periodt 💅

💜 AUTHOR 💜

written by Sebastien Pouliot 👑

⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Novell, Inc (http://www.novell.com)

🍓 MAILING LISTS 🍓

visit http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list for details 💌

🌸 WEB SITE 🌸

visit http://www.mono-project.com for details 🌐

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🫶 go forth and inspect those assemblies, the security attributes can't hide from you anymore 💖

this was the Mono(permview) manual page — copyright 2004-2005 Novell, Inc — ily, bye! 🎀✨🦋