Yes, that would be my ideal approach. I simply don't have the time to implement this at the moment however (I need a running prototype). Besides, the OS X Installer operates this way already.
Thanks,
Arve Knudsen
On 11/3/06, Bob Ippolito <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/3/06, Arve Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm writing a custom installation tool for OS X, which needs to run with
> root privileges. The installation tool is packaged into an app bundle by way
> of py2app. What I basically need to know is the best way of attaining root
> privileges in the tool, must this be done with
> AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges? I first tried this
> approach, writing a wrapper script which executes the main script in a
> privileged Python process. This doesn't quite work however, the resulting
> window behaves completely different from what one would expect. That is, it
> can't get focus and I can't command-tab to it.
>
> I thought of another approach, which is to first run a privileged program
> which setuid's the bundle executable, and then re-execute the bundle. Would
> this be a good approach, and how can I execute the bundle programmatically?
>
Sounds like you're taking the wrong strategy here. The idea is to use
the privileged helper process to do *only* privileged operations.
Don't use it for UI stuff. That's just dangerous.
-bob
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