User-agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.4
Good evening!
I have an application which I'm trying to get a user to authorize for admin
privs and then within the same process install some files in
/Library/Application\ Support.
I have managed from the examples to modify my application to create a
authorizationRef link with the security server, and use AuthorizationCopyRights
to get the application to prompt the user for an administrator's password.
That's where I've hit a little brick wall. I can't extend those rights to the
current process so that I can open up a new file descriptor and start writing
out the file I need.
Can anyone help me out with this? The code compiles and runs fine if you are
already an administrator (since no priveledge extension is needed), but when
running as a non-admin user I get prompted and then the process does not get
privs extended to it.
Code snippet which I thought was supposed to setup and grant those privs I was
looking for:
...
status = AuthorizationCreate(NULL, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,
kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, &authorizationRef);
if (status == errAuthorizationSuccess)
{
/* Now we can use the AuthorizationRef to deterimine if the user is
allowed to perform the rights contained in "rightSet". */
status = AuthorizationCopyRights(authorizationRef, &rightSet,
kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment, flags, authorizedRights);
}
if (status != errAuthorizationCanceled) {
...
I've been searching the online API reference and the list archives, but have not
come up with a solution.
Help?
Thanks,
Joshua
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