On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: > > Le 30 sept. 2011 à 16:01, Eric Gorr a écrit : > >> I had a couple of followup questions concerning the approach used by >> SMJobBless in developing a secure helper tool. >> >> In the How It Works section in the ReadMe, it states: >> >> 4. Requiring the user to authorize the privileged helper tool only once the >> first time it's used >> >> This is what I believe led to my confusion on why the app continues to ask >> for the password every time I launch it. >> >> However, this statement actually refers to the need to just ask for the >> password once at application launch and have the authorization remain valid >> while the application is running. Is this correct? >> >> >> I am also wondering how it might be possible to only ask for an admin >> password once as an absolute regardless of the number of time the >> application was launched. Is this possible? If so, how? >> > > According the the SMJobBless (the function not the sample code) reference, it > installs a launchd plist . So you need to auth only once to install the > plist, not one time per application launch.
I'm sorry, I don't see that in the documentation. An AuthorizationRef needs to be passed to SMJobBless with the kSMRightBlessPrivilegedHelper right. To get this right, one calls AuthorizationCreate and it is AuthorizationCreate that requests the password with each launch of the application._______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
