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I want to elevate my app’s privilege to super-user.
Installer app supports this by displaying this dialog.
How can I show this dialog to elevate privilege?
PS.
I’m making a kind of packet sniffer application on Mac OS X. I’m using pcap lib. (which is part of tcpdump)
AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges with
kAuthorizationRightExecuteSee BetterAuthorizationSample
As a general rule, you should not run GUI applications as root. You should make a command line tool that you can run as root, and control it from your user space GUI application.