hi- There are better ways to do this, but I'm not commenting. :-)
thanks!- -lance On Jun 19, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
Last night while browsing Slashdot I found this: http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/18/1919224.shtml It gives a simple command that can be used to basically execute code as root. osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"' The above will print "root" and replacing "whoami" will other commands will cause the commands to be executed as root. Looks like a job for NSTask... This is certainly easier than using the Authentication protocols :) The "root" problem is that the ARDAgent executable is suid'ed to root! I was surprised than none of the common mac sites has picked up on this...
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