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Prob with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and 'complex' arguments

Hi all,

I am trying to use AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() in an application
to correct a kext's permissions. I am successfully using it to call
'kextload' and 'chown' but am having problems with the more complicated:

/usr/bin/find MyKext.kext -type d -exec /bin/chmod 0755 {} \;

I suspect the problem is either that 'find' calls 'chmod' or just a
problem with having so many parameters. My code is like this:

const char* toolPath = "/usr/bin/find";
const char* myArguments[] = {inKextPath, "-type", "d", "-exec", "/bin/
chmod", "0755", "{}", "\\;", NULL};
err = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges (
authRef,
toolPath,
kAuthorizationFlagDefaults,
(char * const*)myArguments,
NULL);

I see the log "/path/to/mykext.kext: -exec: no terminating ";"

Its not clear to me what AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() considers
an 'argument', is it any string between whitespace? I tried declaring it
like this, but it doesn't work either:

const char* myArguments[] = {inKextPath, "-type d -exec /bin/chmod 0755
{} \\;", NULL};

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!


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Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. Montrial, Quibec, Canada
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