Re: How to prompt for admin rights in Cocoa-Python?

[Jason Coco]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 22:13 , Bill Janssen wrote:

I'm writing a little uninstaller app in Cocoa-Python, and I need to put up that ubiquitous OS X prompt for the admin password, then elevate the

privileges of the script to remove some directories installed as root.
Is that a standard widget?  If so, what is it?  If not, what's the
standard dance to do this in a Cocoa application?

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2095.html

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts/01introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts/03authtasks/chapter_3_section_4.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000995-CH206-TPXREF33

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