Apple's Security framework provides this sort of functionality in
Cocoa. It looks like at least parts of it are open source:
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/security/
I don't know if that will do what you want but it may be a place to
start.
Doug
"The best way to predict the future
Hello,
I'm working on an application that would require elevated privileges
during certain functions. I would like to implement something like the
SuSE Yast setup tool, where if a function is selected by a non
privileged user, a prompt is presented for the root password, which in
turn all
