[Apocalypse]

Hello,

I am trying to write an open-source program that will automate the disk image creation process. The only real problem I am having now is that I don't know if there is any easy way to authenticate a user password for running the sudo program. Since it always looks the same whenever it is used by any applications I have seen I am guessing that their is an API for it. I have figured out a shunt (haven't tried it yet) for catching the password stderr and then replying with stdin password yet that seems kind of messy if there is a better solution. I was looking into the security framework but it seems to be part of the carbon framework and I want this to be pure cocoa.

Any ideas?
Jeff.

[honeydew]

I would go with Apple's security framework. I think it provides the common authentication dialog that you see in System Preferences and other apps.

I was looking into the security framework but it seems to be part of the carbon framework and I want this to be pure cocoa.

AFAIK the security framework is not Carbon. It is a "foundation" API written in C for the convenience of both Carbon and Cocoa developers. You might be interested in the Objective-C wrapper of the security framework written by Brian R. Hill at Stepwise. Check out his sample Cocoa project.

[This message has been edited by honeydew (edited 05-29-2001).]