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Re: Prob with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and 'complex' arguments

You should pass the arguments as separate char* in an array, as you did in the first place, but because there is no shell to intercept the semicolon, there is no need to escape it with a backslash. Try it as simply ";".

-- F


On Monday, 28 July 2003, at 11:00 AM, Sean McBride wrote:

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 ";"
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