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/>

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