Re: Authorization to copy a file -- is it really that complex?
Re: Authorization to copy a file -- is it really that complex?
- Subject: Re: Authorization to copy a file -- is it really that complex?
- From: Charlie Dickman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:15:26 -0400
Laurent,
Thanks so much for the links! For me wrapper packages are by far the best tool for understanding Apple's APIs. I used SSCrypto to learn how to use openSSL.
On Jun 14, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> Jens,
>
> I understand your pain. I didn't want to go through it either and I finally found BLAuthentication which is a Objective-C wrapper class around the Authorization Services. It's a bit outdated but still works fine for me. It's hard to find a copy somewhere but here is a link:
>
> http://blog.laurent.etiemble.com/index.php?post/2005/12/05/36
>
> -Laurent.
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> On Jun 14, 2012, at 13:39, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
>> I've managed to never have to deal with Authorization Services so far in my Cocoa career; until today. Basically I have an app that needs to install some helper tools that the user can run from a shell. (This is a lot like the way TextMate installs the 'mate' tool.) I'm giving a choice of install locations, but the typical one is going to be /usr/bin, so the app will need to authorize to do that.
>>
>> Reading through the Authorization Services Programming Guide and BetterAuthorizationSample, this all looks really, really complicated. All I need to do is the GUI equivalent of "sudo ditto my_tool /usr/bin" — does this really take pages and pages of code involving AuthorizationRefs and IPC, and either setuid or invoking launchctl?!
>>
>> —Jens
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