Unable to Move Plugin to Plug-Ins/Component (macOS)

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You’ll have to elevate privileges like other installers…

Elevate Rights on OSX

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 (aroun…

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