How can a Cocoa application add itself as a global login item?

Question

I tried

LSSharedFileListRef globalLoginItems = LSSharedFileListCreate(NULL, kLSSharedFileListGlobalLoginItems, NULL);
if (globalLoginItems) {
    LSSharedFileLi         


        

Answer 1

I got this working. All I had to do was add these lines before I insert the app into the login items:

AuthorizationRef auth = NULL; 
AuthorizationCreate(NULL, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment, kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, &auth);
LSSharedFileListSetAuthorization(globalLoginItems, auth);

The docs for LSSharedFileListSetAuthorization say that we have to get the right system.global-login-items for this, but it worked nevertheless!

But this will fail if the user is not an administrator. For it to work then too, you'll have to do this:

AuthorizationItem right[1] = {{"system.global-login-items.", 0, NULL, 0}};
AuthorizationRights setOfRights = {1, right};
AuthorizationRef auth = NULL; 
AuthorizationCreate(NULL, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment, kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, &auth);


AuthorizationCopyRights(auth, &setOfRights, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,
                              (kAuthorizationFlagDefaults
                               | kAuthorizationFlagInteractionAllowed
                               | kAuthorizationFlagExtendRights), NULL);

It's also advisable to refer to the docs for details.

Answer 2

NSString * appPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];

        // This will retrieve the path for the application
        CFURLRef url = (CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:appPath]; 

        LSSharedFileListRef loginItems = LSSharedFileListCreate(NULL, kLSSharedFileListGlobalLoginItems, NULL);
        if (loginItems) {
            //Insert an item to the list.
            LSSharedFileListItemRef item = LSSharedFileListInsertItemURL(loginItems,kLSSharedFileListItemLast, NULL, NULL,url, NULL, NULL);
            if (item){
                CFRelease(item);
            }
        }   

        CFRelease(loginItems);

Doesn't work this code? I replaced kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems with kLSSharedFileListGlobalLoginItems

Answer 3

This works for me:

NSString * appPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];

// This will retrieve the path for the application
CFURLRef url = (CFURLRef)[NSURL fileURLWithPath:appPath]; 

// Create a reference to the shared file list.
// We are adding it to the current user only.
// If we want to add it all users, use
// kLSSharedFileListGlobalLoginItems instead of
//kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems
LSSharedFileListRef loginItems = LSSharedFileListCreate(NULL, kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems, NULL);
if (loginItems) {
    //Insert an item to the list.
    LSSharedFileListItemRef item = LSSharedFileListInsertItemURL(loginItems,kLSSharedFileListItemLast, NULL, NULL,url, NULL, NULL);
    if (item){
        CFRelease(item);
    }
}   

CFRelease(loginItems);