Re: NSTask as root
Re: NSTask as root
- Subject: Re: NSTask as root
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:51:20 -0800
On Mar 17, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Rakka wrote:
On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ben Borofka wrote:
I need to run a series of NSTasks as root. I've found some samples
out there but they are old, complicated, confusing and C-based. Is
there an easy way of doing this in Objective-C? I'd like to just
have a standard Authentication dialogue pop up and then have a
method go and execute a bunch of NSTasks with those privileges. Is
that a lot of work?
I also prefer using NSTask opposed to the other methods (AEWP).
What I would do if I were you is to have the app relaunch as root,
then run your NSTasks.
This is not recommended. For security reasons, anything you need to
do as root should always be done in the simplest possible command-
line tool.
-jcr
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