Re: Running process as root from Cocoa

FROM : Kyle Sluder
DATE : Tue Jan 29 07:17:31 2008

On Jan 29, 2008 1:03 AM, Mitchell Hashimoto <<email_removed>> wrote:
> But I actually want to launch the same
> program with root access, is there a special way to do this? As far as
> I know I can't launch two instances of my same program so how would I
> go about doing this?


You're going to run into one fundamental problem very quickly: apps
running as root cannot access the window server on 10.5.  You're going
to have to factor out the payload logic into a separate non-GUI tool
and use some sort of IPC technique to communicate between the two
modules.

Sorry that this just got a lot more complicated.

--Kyle Sluder