On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Nyxem wrote:
>
>> 1 - Using the authorizationRef object of my SFAuthorizationView and call
>> AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() ("/bin/launchctl load
>> /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mydaemon.plist")
>> --> Failed. daemon not launched as root, but as current user.
>
> As you've figured out, AEWP() launches apps with root privileges, but it
> doesn't run them _as_ root. If you need to launch an app as root for whatever
> reason via AEWP(), then search the archives for a workaround, because I'm
> pretty sure I've posted at least one workaround for this years ago...
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
It launches the process with an *effective* UID of root. You should be able to
make it run as root by using the setuid() function.
However, a better way to go would probably be to use the BetterAuthSample code.
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