Steven, You are right. I got my way.
Regards, Cocoa.learner On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Steven Degutis <steven.degu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Essentially you need to use the Security.framework API which you were > already using in the beginning. You're already heading in the right > direction. If you continue to read the docs on it, you'll get your sample > code working; they're pretty thorough docs I believe. > > -Steven > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:48 AM, cocoa learner <cocoa.lear...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Ok let me put my problem in simple words - >> >> I have a cocoa app and I want to launch a shell script which has to do >> some >> task with root privilege. How can I do it??? >> >> Regards, >> Cocoa.learner >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Nick Zitzmann <n...@chronosnet.com> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:05 PM, cocoa learner wrote: >> > >> > > And permission of this script is - >> > > -rwx------ 1 root wheel 536 Feb 14 10:51 /Users/test/myScript >> > > >> > > >> > > When I am executing the app "launchScript" is returning me TRUE but my >> > > script is not getting executed. I am totally lost, have no clue why >> it's >> > > happening like this. >> > > >> > > Does any body know why this script is not getting executed? Am I doing >> > any >> > > thing wrong? >> > >> > Yes and yes. You set your script's permissions to 700 root/wheel, which >> > means that you don't have permission to run the script. AEWP() executes >> > tasks with root privileges, but it doesn't execute them _as_ root. If >> you >> > need to do that, then you must use a wrapper that sets the uid to root. >> > Check the archives for more information. It might be easier, though, to >> set >> > the permissions to 755 instead, and put in a check for root privileges. >> > >> > And if that still doesn't work, then you might need to execute the shell >> as >> > the task, and point the shell to the script, but I'm pretty sure you >> just >> > have the permissions set incorrectly. >> > >> > Nick Zitzmann >> > <http://www.chronosnet.com/> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/steven.degutis%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to steven.degu...@gmail.com >> > > > > -- > Steven Degutis > http://www.thoughtfultree.com/ > http://www.degutis.org/ > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
