On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote:

Of course, I can't expect my users to go into /etc/authorization to change the entry themselves, and I'm not going to much around with it from my code, so I guess I'll wait for Apple to fix this. I'm not even sure which code is to blame (the BAS code or the Authorization code).

I found a simple work around.

When the authorization code fails to retrieve the text for the prompt in the password request panel that come up, it only displays the prompt key, so I simply made the prompt "key" the entire sentence I want to display.

For example, in my Common.c code I have

const BASCommandSpec kSampleCommandSet[] = {
        {
                kACManagerCopyToAuditControlCommand,    // commandName
                kACManagerCopyToAuditControlRightName,  // rightName
                 "default",                              // rightDefaultRule
"To replace the system's audit_config file, you need to authenticae yourself.",
                NULL                                    // userData
        },
        ...

The "rightDescriptionKey" is that full sentence "To replace ..." And then in the "SampleAuthorizationPrompts.strings" file (no, I didn't change the names of the variable or file names from the example code) I have the key and the value the same (i.e., the full sentence):

"To replace the system's audit_config file, you need to authenticae yourself." = "To replace the system's audit_config file, you need to authenticae yourself.";


Now when Snow Leopard doesn't do the right thing and only displays the key (and not the value), it's OK because my key is also the value I want to display. Now, this wouldn't work if I wanted to do more than one language, but it will get me through the current day.

Todd

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