On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:24 PM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > Having clicked on a button, it requests admin's password and launches > the helper tool. But in System Console i see messages like "to unload > kext you need to be root", "unable to stop the daemon". Only agent can > be stopped. > Why does this happen? Isn't my helper application works already on > behalf of root already?
No. > Then why does it ask me to switch to root once > again if it is lauched as root already? It isn't launched as root. AEWP() launches tasks with root privileges, but it doesn't launch them _as_ root. There is a difference. Check the archives for more details; this has come up many times. Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
