On Nov 16, 2009, at 09:37, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
> On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> The BLAuthentication class uses "AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges" which
>> doesn't seem to allow to pass a description like "AuthorizationRightSet"
>> seems to allow. I've searched for some samples but they are all very
>> outdated (from 2005 (AuthForAll) and 2007 (BetterAuthorizationSample)) and
>> are way too complex to understand in like one hour. I can't imagine that all
>> that crap hasn't been encapsulated under some Objective-C classes. Anyone
>> has any idea or pointer to something basic I don't need to take a few hours
>> to figure it out?
>
> Typed in Mail, untested, use at your own risk but it ought to work, and all
> that:
>
> #import <SecurityFoundation/SFAuthorization.h>
>
> const char *myFancyMessage = "We humbly ask for your password so we can do
> this and that.";
> AuthorizationItem promptItem = {kAuthorizationEnvironmentPrompt,
> strlen(myFancyMessage), myFancyMessage, 0};
> AuthorizationEnvironment myEnvironment = {1, &promptItem};
> AuthorizationItem myRight = {kAuthorizationRightExecute, 0, NULL, 0};
> AuthorizationRights myRights = {1, &myRight};
> SFAuthorization *sfAuthorization = [SFAuthorization
> authorizationWithFlags:kAuthorizationFlagInterationAllowed|kAuthorizationFlagPreAuthorize
> rights:myRights environment:myEnvironment];
>
> At that last line, the security server ought to pre-authorize with the
> message in myFancyMessage instead of the default message. Then you use AEWP()
> with the AuthorizationRef obtained from the SFAuthorization to do whatever it
> is you need to do.
Thanks, Nick, I'll give it a shot!
-Laurent.
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