Re: Newbie question about Authorization Services
Re: Newbie question about Authorization Services
- Subject: Re: Newbie question about Authorization Services
- From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:16:29 +0100
On 20/07/06, Scotty's Lists <email@hidden> wrote:
I found Brian Hill's article on Stepwise very helpful in figuring
this out.
<http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/2001-03-26.01.html>.
This article details an approach which is not recommended (uses
AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges, which for one will require that
people type their password every time they want to perform a
priviliged operation).
Apple has detailed sample code which, whilst perhaps a little obtuse
in places, should be fairly easy to follow. There is no "pure Cocoa"
way to do this, largely because a lot of the issues involved are a bit
tricky and a side-effect of the legacy UNIX security architecture.
It's not easy, and that's because it's just not easy. If you can't
follow Apple's detailed documentation and sample code, then I'm afraid
there's no magic bullet for you.
-- Finlay
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