Laurent, Thanks so much for the links! For me wrapper packages are by far the best tool for understanding Apple's APIs. I used SSCrypto to learn how to use openSSL.
On Jun 14, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Jens, > > I understand your pain. I didn't want to go through it either and I finally > found BLAuthentication which is a Objective-C wrapper class around the > Authorization Services. It's a bit outdated but still works fine for me. It's > hard to find a copy somewhere but here is a link: > > http://blog.laurent.etiemble.com/index.php?post/2005/12/05/36 > > -Laurent. > -- > Laurent Daudelin > AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin > http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ > Logiciels Nemesys Software > laur...@nemesys-soft.com > > On Jun 14, 2012, at 13:39, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> I've managed to never have to deal with Authorization Services so far in my >> Cocoa career; until today. Basically I have an app that needs to install >> some helper tools that the user can run from a shell. (This is a lot like >> the way TextMate installs the 'mate' tool.) I'm giving a choice of install >> locations, but the typical one is going to be /usr/bin, so the app will need >> to authorize to do that. >> >> Reading through the Authorization Services Programming Guide and >> BetterAuthorizationSample, this all looks really, really complicated. All I >> need to do is the GUI equivalent of "sudo ditto my_tool /usr/bin" — does >> this really take pages and pages of code involving AuthorizationRefs and >> IPC, and either setuid or invoking launchctl?! >> >> —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > 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/3tothe4th%40comcast.net > > This email sent to 3tothe...@comcast.net Charlie Dickman 3tothe...@comcast.net _______________________________________________ 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
