Hi folks, I have an app which communicates with a privileged helper tool, and I used the AuthorizationRightSet API to add the rights, requirements, and prompt strings to the authorizationdb - as per Apple's documentation. As expected, this initial call to "AuthorizationRightSet" does not prompt for authentication to add the rights to the DB.
Some of my app's functions require presenting an authentication prompt to the user, and these prompts have been localised. Calling 'sudo security authorizationdb read' in the Terminal shows the rule, the default prompt, and all the localised versions of the prompt string. All fine so far, but I've recently reworded some of the authentication prompt strings, so it (and all the localisations) now need to be updated. How do I do this? Naively I thought I could just update the respective localizable.strings file, and it would just work, but as the translated text is hard-coded into the authorizationdb, this doesn't seem possible. Using AuthorizationRightSet again will cause an authentication prompt to appear as soon as my app is launched. As does AuthorizationRightRemove. Now, I know I could remove all my rights from the authorizationdb by calling "sudo security authorizationdb remove XYZ" for each of my app's rights, but I obviously can't expect users to do this. Neither do I want them to be presented with an auth prompt purely to update some strings. I could also just change the auth right name so that the app proceeds as if that particular right had never been in the database in the first place, but that seems like a nasty hacky way to do it. ....so, where does this leave me? I can't be the only person who's come up against this issue, but web searches and StackOverflow aren't giving me much to go on. Many thanks Mark _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
