Elevate Rights on OSX

Feature Requests
18

You spawn a tool to do the copying using AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges which will have time limited elevated privileges.

    FILE *pipe = NULL;

    OSStatus status;
    
    #pragma clang diagnostic push
    #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"

    status = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges (m_auth, tool, kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, args, &pipe);
    
    #pragma clang diagnostic pop

As long as the AuthorizationRef (m_auth) is valid within it’s time limit (around 15 minutes or so) you can call the tool as above in an ObjectiveC function.

I have a tool named accentutil which is a command line app with the usage:

run: accentutil -?

Usage: accentutil -S SourcePath -D DestPath [-R] [-V] [-X] [-?] [/HELP]

You can use either - or / for the parameters

[/R]	Copy Recursively                             	(Optional)
[/V]	Enable verbose mode                          	(Optional)
[/X]	Delete the DestPath recursively if it exists 	(Optional)
[/HELP]	Display this help info.                      	(Optional)

Return values:  0: No Errors
               -1: Error copying source to dest
               -2: Source doesn't exist
               -3: Either the source or dest path is empty

Version: 1.0.1

NOTE: Your tool and calling app must both be signed with the same cert.

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