Is there something like "kdesu" on MacOSX

[Shawn Erickson]

On Apr 14, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello MacOSX-Dev,
>
> I need to run a script with root rights. On Linux it is easy to use
> either "gtksu" or "kdesu" which both show the common dialog, ask
> for the password and then executes the command with correctly set
> user id.
>
> What is the equivalent on MacOSX ?

I don't think a command-line graphical tool directly exists, at least  
not one that Apple provides as a support method on Mac OS X.

Review the following for a supported method...

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/ 
authorization_concepts/index.html>

-Shawn