Re: Running process as root from Cocoa
Re: Running process as root from Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Running process as root from Cocoa
- From: "Mitchell Hashimoto" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:20:26 -0700
Really? I am basing a lot of my code off of this program called "The Cheat" at:
http://brokenzipper.com/software/
When I run that app as root it all works fine... and all its logic is
right into the GUI app.
What do you mean I can't access the window server?
Mitch
On Jan 28, 2008 11:17 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 1:03 AM, Mitchell Hashimoto <email@hidden> wrote:
> > But I actually want to launch the same
> > program with root access, is there a special way to do this? As far as
> > I know I can't launch two instances of my same program so how would I
> > go about doing this?
>
> You're going to run into one fundamental problem very quickly: apps
> running as root cannot access the window server on 10.5. You're going
> to have to factor out the payload logic into a separate non-GUI tool
> and use some sort of IPC technique to communicate between the two
> modules.
>
> Sorry that this just got a lot more complicated.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
>
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