Re: Authentication in PreferencePanes
Re: Authentication in PreferencePanes
- Subject: Re: Authentication in PreferencePanes
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:58:05 +0000
On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 07:41 pm, Eric Peyton wrote:
That will not happen. The NIAuthenticationButton will not become
public, however some other version of an authentication button may or
may not be made public in the future. NO time frames. It is a current
issue of discussion.
I just thought I might like to point out that I have an authentication
button based around the Security.framework "temporary API" of
AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() as part of HXD for OS X, the source
code to which is available. It does not follow the
NIAuthenticationButton behavior perfectly, but it is good enough for
most purposes.
BTW Eric, there should be some documentation on how to implement things
with Security.framework "the recommended way", and what the recommended
way is -- the only place i've seen it is in the Authorization API
session at WWDC 2001 that I evilly hacked myself access to via ADC
Connect :-P
-- Finlay