Re: Launching an app with extended rights
Re: Launching an app with extended rights
- Subject: Re: Launching an app with extended rights
- From: Tito Ciuro <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:27:56 -0700
Hi Kyle,
This is exactly what I've done, except that I'm not using SMJobBless.
-- Tito
On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> The modern way to do this is to split the server portion into a separate process and use SMJobBless to submit it as a privileged launchd task.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
> (Sent from the road)
>
> On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Tito Ciuro <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When my app launches, I'd like it to listen to port 80 or 443. To do that, I believe I need to use Security Framework Authorization API to obtain extended rights. A potential solution is to split the app's executable int two parts:
>>
>> 1) one executable, the main one that first gets launched, obtains extended rights.
>> 2) the app itself, which is the embedded web server.
>>
>> When the user double clicks the app, it would execute (1) with:
>>
>> SFAuthorization *authorization = [SFAuthorization authorization];
>> BOOL result = [authorization obtainWithRights:NULL
>> flags:kAuthorizationFlagExtendRights
>> environment:NULL
>> authorizedRights:NULL
>> error:&error];
>>
>> and then use NSTask to launch (2) via:
>>
>> + (NSString *)stringByLaunchingPath:(NSString *)processPath
>> withArguments:(NSArray *)arguments
>> authorization:(SFAuthorization *)authorization
>> error:(NSError **)error;
>>
>> Is this approach the way to go, or is there an easier/better/safer way do to that?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -- Tito
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