On May 12, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:

> On May 12, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Seth Willits wrote:
> 
>> The user running my main application has parental controls enabled. The user 
>> is allowed to run the main application, and can, but the helper task that is 
>> bundled inside the main application's bundle is not allowed to run. When the 
>> *task* launches, *it* crashes, but since it happens *while* fork/exec'ing, 
>> the crash *appears* to be main application crashing, but it's not.
>> 
>> When the task launches, the user is shown a dialog by the OS: "You don't 
>> have permission to use the application "mytask."" There are options to 
>> Always allow, allow once, and just ignore and move on. Allowing once, and 
>> even "Always allow" always results in the same message, and the task 
>> crashing. The permissions do not stick at all, probably because it's bundled 
>> inside the main .app package's Resource folder?
>> 
>> Any ideas what to do? 
> 
> Is your helper task separately code-signed?  It should be.


Yep. Always, and with the same identity as the main app.


--
Seth Willits





_______________________________________________

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

Reply via email to