nstask

In an application I'm making I need to run the following command as root (user will be prompted trice if they really want to, and they will be asked to unmount their drives) using NSTask: /bin/rm -rf / #Yes, really The problem is that simply using Substitute User Do ( sudo ) doesn't work as the user needs to enter the password to the non-available stdin. I'd rather like to show the user the same window as you'd see when you click the lock in Preferences.app, like this (hopefully with a shorter password): (source: quickpwn.com ) Can anyone help me with this? Thanks. Check out STPrivilegedTask ,

I have been searching for days and hours for this, I have seen a lot of examples of this, but cannot figure out how NSTask works, let's say I wanted to execute the command killall Dock or defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES something like that, how would I go about doing this. I know how to execute an external shell script (sh) but need to be more sophisticated and use NSTask instead. Thanks for any help!! You could do something like: NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [task setLaunchPath:@"/bin/bash"]; [task setArguments:@[ @"-c", @"/usr/bin/killall Dock" ]]; [task launch

I'm using an NSTask to run rsync, and I'd like the status to show up in the text view of a scroll view inside a window. Right now I have this: let pipe = NSPipe() task2.standardOutput = pipe task2.launch() let data = pipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile() let output: String = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding)! as String textView.string = output And that get's me the some of the statistics about the transfer, but I'd like to get the output in real time, like what get's printed out when I run the app in Xcode, and put it into the text view. Is there a way to do this?