[Apocalypse]

Hello,

I am trying to launch a sub-application with root privileges and I have found that the security framework has some severe limitations in that it doesn't seem to properly pass the root environment to its sub-programs. For example, I cannot open any documents easily with this. I also cannot use it to launch Carbon apps since LaunchCFMApp seems to ignore the secure environment and run as the other user. I don't understand this since running it with sudo from the command line works properly.

I have been looking into using LauchServices since it offers program binding, etc, but I can't figure out if it can use security or how I would do that.

Can anyone help me out with this?
Jeff.

[aleph_null]

i may be mis-remembering, but i believe that security patch released in October (called SecurityUpdate10-19-01), among other things, prevents the Window Server from running apps with any privileges other than those of the user who logged in.

although in that case you shouldn't be able to run a sudo-ed GUI app, either.

hm.

[Apocalypse]

That is what I am trying to work around. I used to be able to do this with open but the updated changed that. You can still run apps as other users from the terminal but the way that the authentication framework does it seems to be weeker than using the terminal somehow since it only works if you execute the binary inside an app bundle with it. If you try to run something carbon with LaunCFMApp or try to open any documents it doesn't work.

Any other ideas?