Re: Launching another GUI app as root

FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Thu Nov 07 19:57:00 2002

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 03:25  PM, <email_removed> wrote:

> I have a GUI app that needs to run as a system user every time it is
> launched.  What I was doing was writing a wrapper app around it which
> would do a little hacky piping of the password into a sudo prompt
> which would launch the app as root.  But I know that a security update
> disabled doing that.  So my question is, is there a way to use the
> Security Framework to launch another application as root?


The answer is yes. If this application you want to launch is in Mach-O
format, then you'd just have the security framework launch
/Path/To/Your/Application.app/Contents/MacOS/Application.

If this application is in CFM format, then you'll have to make your
program run the "open" command and pass the path to the application as
an argument.

Nick Zitzmann
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