On 2014 Apr 26, at 12:56, Eric Smith wrote:
> Can someone post a code snippet that shows how to us authorization services
> to run 'sudo chown'
This article has a little sample code near the bottom, but you should read the
whole thing.
https://developer.apple.com/library/m
All,
New to Authorization, and it's got me a little turned around. Can someone post
a code snippet that shows how to us authorization services to run 'sudo chown'
from within Cocoa?
Thanks in advance!
Eric
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Mark Thomas wrote:
This I cannot check the pid of the initiating process as it's
'AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges' which has launched this
process and given it extra privileges somehow, as the below path to
the tool is passed in via the 'cmd' argument, so it's the direct
tool which bei
Hi
> wait() only works if there's a direct child process. Other
relationships (e.g. grandparentage) don't count.
Seems fair and matches the documentation
> I recommend that your privileged tool log its getppid() value and
you manually compare to the getpid() value of the > initiating
pro
Mark Thomas wrote:
I notice from the NSLog's outputs that this code doesn't seem to be
waiting for that launched tool to finish, as I have also put some
NSLogs within the tool itself, as I do not see NSLog's timestamps
match up, as I would expect to see the timestamp of the above 'tool
ha
Hi All,
Thanks for the replies, however I'm noticing from the snippet below
FILE* commsPipe = NULL;
DEBUG_SHOW(CFStringCreateWithFormat(kCFAllocatorDefault, NULL,
CFSTR("Call external Tool (%s) withs Args(%s)."), cmd, pArguments) );
err = (WirelessError)AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges([au
On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me if it's correct to use
authorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and wait() calls together, so the
parent process wait's until that new child process finishes.
Googling seems to imply this from the examples I
On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me if it's correct to use
authorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and wait() calls together, so the
parent process wait's until that new child process finishes.
Googling seems to imply this from the examples
Hi ALL,
I was wondering if anybody could tell me if it's correct to use
authorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and wait() calls together, so the
parent process wait's until that new child process finishes. Googling
seems to imply this from the examples I've seen.
However reading the documentat
ok thank you both it's most helpful!
rick
From: Jean-Daniel Dupas
To: Rick C.
Cc: cocoa dev
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:35:45 AM
Subject: Re: authorization services
Le 24 août 2009 à 18:35, Kyle Sluder a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at
Le 24 août 2009 à 18:35, Kyle Sluder a écrit :
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Rick C. wrote:
if i can follow up please about authorization services i just want
to be sure i'm on the right track. if i'm just trying to do a
simple movePath but i don't have access is the
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Rick C. wrote:
> if i can follow up please about authorization services i just want to be sure
> i'm on the right track. if i'm just trying to do a simple movePath but i
> don't have access is the only wa
hi again,
if i can follow up please about authorization services i just want to be sure
i'm on the right track. if i'm just trying to do a simple movePath but i don't
have access is the only way to get access by using
authorizationExecuteWithPrivileges? i keep reading abo
thank you kyle,
i've been carefully reading over authorization services since i posted and
looks like i'm getting there. i definitely want to make sure i do this the
right way and thanks again for your help!
rick
From: Kyle Sluder
To: Rick C.
Avoid using NSTask with Authorization Services in any pattern other
than that illustrated in the documentation.
Using AppleScript for this sounds like severe overkill. And shelling
out to a script is not a good idea when filenames or special
characters are involved.
Learn and use
hello,
what i need for my project is a simple authorization from time to time if for
example a file is being moved and i don't have access. i'm just starting to
learn about authorization services and maybe this is what i need to do although
it looks a bit complex for my needs. w
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