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macOS Ruby or Obj-C request administrator privileges

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Kaliemon

macrumors member
Original poster
Apr 30, 2006
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I making a program that needs to edit a certain system file. However the since the file is owned by the system I need to get Administrator permission, similar to Installer. Can someone please post an example of doing this in either Ruby or Obj-C, or even C++.

I know I can run the app through terminal with sudo, but the people who it is for do not want to need to open terminal.

Thanks
 
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kainjow

Moderator emeritus
Jun 15, 2000
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You can use AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() (lots of examples on the web) to do this. You'll need to write a separate utility that writes to the file.
 
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