Re: Using the security framework
Re: Using the security framework
- Subject: Re: Using the security framework
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:45:46 -0700
On Jan 3, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Joe Turner wrote:
I am making a hard drive cloner/backuper, and to do some deleting
and copying, I need to use the security framework. What I need to be
able to do is have the user type in their password one time, and
then it would give me system.privilege.admin rights until a time
that they want to unauthorized it (could be days, weeks, months,
years). I have looked through the security framework, but have not
really found how to have one system.privilege.admin authorization,
and have it last a long time. So, if anyone could point me in the
right direction with this, like what methods to use, and what
parameters to use.
If you pre-authorize an admin authorization, then it will last for 300
seconds and then must be renewed. This is not something you can
programmatically change; it's set in the computer's /etc/authorization
file.
I'm also wondering another thing. To delete the files, I need admin
privileges, but, do I need to create a new target (e.g. a shell
script) to do the copying and then run the command (blanking on the
name) that runs the script at a given path with admin privileges.
Or, could I somehow use NSFileManager in an authorized state.
You have to have something else do the work, since the security model
of Mac OS X (and all Unix-like OSes) do not allow the escalation of
privileges in an existing task.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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