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Re: Using sudo in NSTask

Subject: Re: Using sudo in NSTask
From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:41:21 -0400

On Jun 22, 2007, at 3:22 AM, Saritha A wrote:

Presently i am working on particular application in which i want to launch a process as a root process using NSTask.

What you *really* want is to run a process with root privileges; unfortunately, sudo & NSTask are not the right tools for that job. Instead, you want to use Authorization Services for that:

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

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