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Re: nstask with admin privs
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Re: nstask with admin privs


  • Subject: Re: nstask with admin privs
  • From: Michael Watson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:19:38 -0500

You won't use NSTask, but this can be done:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/ Security_Overview/index.html

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/ authorization_concepts/index.html


-- m-s

On 12 Jan, 2007, at 11:51, Ian Archer wrote:

Is it possible to run a subtask through something like NSTask with
admin/sudo priviledges?

Ideally I'm looking for something which prompts the user for a
password before launching a secure subprocess.  I don't want the main
application to have to be run by admin, though.
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