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Asked: 2026-05-13T13:07:58+00:00

What is the proper way to run something like $sudo touch folder_name or $sudo

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What is the proper way to run something like $sudo touch folder_name or $sudo rm from within Objective-C/Cocoa? I’m changing and moving around a few files and need elevated privileges. Any code sample would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    One way to do it is AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(), but that’s discouraged for the normal course of things. Mainly it’s for installers, I gather.

    Something like:

    AuthorizationRef auth = NULL;
OSStatus err = AuthorizationCreate(NULL, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment, kAuthorizationFlagInteractionAllowed, &auth);
err = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(auth, command, kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, args, NULL);

    And you add appropriate checking of err…

    See the Authorization documentation.

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