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Re: User Entered Root Password (kmodload)
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Re: User Entered Root Password (kmodload)


  • Subject: Re: User Entered Root Password (kmodload)
  • From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 10:14:00 +0100

On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 04:10 AM, devdrvr wrote:

With the below line I'm calling kmodload in my app when a button is hit to install a kernel extension for some wireless encryption code I've written. The stringValue will be the name of the extension to load that comes from an edit field. What is the right way to prompt around the code for the root password; so the command can have the privileges to execute?

See
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreTechnologies/securityservices/
authservices.html

-- Finlay
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