Is there something like "kdesu" on MacOSX

[Lothar Scholz]

Hello Justin,

Monday, April 16, 2007, 6:45:05 AM, you wrote:

JRM> On Apr 15, 2007, at 1:05 AM, 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 ?

JRM> I came across this a few years ago:

JRM> http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.html

JRM> However, I don't think it's been updating very recently.

Thanks, in the meantime i found the code for sudo as
an example in

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



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