Re: Fun with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges...
Re: Fun with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges...
- Subject: Re: Fun with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges...
- From: Lloyd Sargent <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:47:17 -0500
Nevertheless, it would have made our lives a wee bit easier had it
returned a PID. <sigh> Oh, well, just ONE more thing <grin>...
Cheers,
Lloyd
On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 08:45 PM, Eric Peyton wrote:
AEWP was not designed to be the complete be-all, end-all of process
control and creation to run every existing unix tool as root. It was
implemented to allow developers to write a tool (unix tool) that could
be run as root. That tool could then communicate back with the
launching Graphical application (via DO, Mach messaging, CF messaging,
port messages, pipes, signal flags, whatever).
I have been told that you will probably never find features of NSTask,
etc. in AEWP.
My suggestion is to write a simple unix tool that wraps the commands
you want executed as root. That tool can then be the control center
and can communicate back with the main application about status, etc.
and the main application can communicate back with control for the tool.
Eric
On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 06:55 PM, Lloyd Sargent wrote:
Okay, so I'm running this tool. Now I want to kill the tool. NSTask at
least gave me that. However, I don't seem to see a way you can do this
with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges... Am I missing something?
Truly stumped this time,
Lloyd
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