Re: Elevating privileges

[Doug Simons]

Apple's Security framework provides this sort of functionality in Cocoa. It looks like at least parts of it are open source:

http://developer.apple.com/opensource/security/

I don't know if that will do what you want but it may be a place to start.

Doug

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

    - Alan Kay, 1971

On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Steven L wrote:

Hello,

I'm working on an application that would require elevated privileges during certain functions. I would like to implement something like the SuSE Yast setup tool, where if a function is selected by a non privileged user, a prompt is presented for the root password, which in turn allows the function to perform properly. I don't know what the technique is to achieve this. So far I'm looking at Linux "capabilities", libcap, but I'm not sure this is the right direction and if this solution would be portable, to say a BSD based GNUstep system.

Many thanks for your help

Steven

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