Re: Running process as root from Cocoa

FROM : Mitchell Hashimoto
DATE : Tue Jan 29 07:20:26 2008

Really? I am basing a lot of my code off of this program called "The Cheat" at:
http://brokenzipper.com/software/

When I run that app as root it all works fine... and all its logic is
right into the GUI app.

What do you mean I can't access the window server?

Mitch

On Jan 28, 2008 11:17 PM, Kyle Sluder <kyle.sluder+<email_removed>> wrote:
> 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
>