Hi Kyle,

This is exactly what I've done, except that I'm not using SMJobBless.

-- Tito

On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> The modern way to do this is to split the server portion into a separate 
> process and use SMJobBless to submit it as a privileged launchd task.
> 
> --Kyle Sluder
> (Sent from the road)
> 
> On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Tito Ciuro <tci...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> When my app launches, I'd like it to listen to port 80 or 443. To do that, I 
>> believe I need to use Security Framework Authorization API to obtain 
>> extended rights. A potential solution is to split the app's executable int 
>> two parts:
>> 
>> 1) one executable, the main one that first gets launched, obtains extended 
>> rights.
>> 2) the app itself, which is the embedded web server.
>> 
>> When the user double clicks the app, it would execute (1) with:
>> 
>>   SFAuthorization *authorization = [SFAuthorization authorization];
>>   BOOL result = [authorization obtainWithRights:NULL
>>                                           
>> flags:kAuthorizationFlagExtendRights
>>                                     environment:NULL
>>                                authorizedRights:NULL
>>                                           error:&error];
>> 
>> and then use NSTask to launch (2) via:
>> 
>> + (NSString *)stringByLaunchingPath:(NSString *)processPath
>>   withArguments:(NSArray *)arguments
>>   authorization:(SFAuthorization *)authorization
>>   error:(NSError **)error;
>> 
>> Is this approach the way to go, or is there an easier/better/safer way do to 
>> that?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> -- Tito
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