Just use parental controls on systems that non administrator users log
in to.
See the help menu.
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On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:23 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
I want to allow my cocoa app to be only launched by root/admin users.
How can i achieve this?
As I think has already been mentioned, the UNIX approach is to set
the application's owner as root and then make it only executable by
the owner. However, Apple largely discourages programmers from
developing Cocoa apps that will be run with root privileges.
A better approach, if possible, is to factor out the section of code
that needs to be run with root privilege (e.g., to read a protected
file or open a network tap) and place that in a command line helper
tool. The Cocoa app then runs with normal privileges. When the
program needs to perform the privileged operation it calls that
helper app (think of it as a kind of remote procedure call).
Look up Apple's BetterAuthorizationSample code for how to do this.
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