Prompt for root access in cocoa application

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I want my program to begin with a prompt/alert that asks for root access. The user must enter their password, and then the application follows. I've been looking around, but I'm not exactly sure how to do this.

You help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 17 '17 at 18:32

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This is Apple's documentation on the matter, and here is a good example of it.

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '11 at 00:39

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Use BLAuthentication. Its much easier to launch authorization as root and you can enter bash commands to run as root.

http://jim.roepcke.com/blog/archives/2002/09/24/blauthentication-class.html

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