Is there any graphical “sudo” for Mac OS X?

Question

I\'m designing a little software in Java. I don\'t know the term/definition to what I\'m doing, but I\'m prompting commands from Java to the terminal. Something like this:

Answer 1

One should use the native OS X authorization services instead of looking at sudo and/or a graphical interface to it.

Ref:

• Introduction to Authorization Services Programming Guide (apple)

• Authorization Services Tasks (apple)

[I know it's a late answer ...]

Answer 2

gksudo is the GTK+ version of sudo.

You can use this clone for it especially for OS X.

Answer 3

If you are using a terminal, then just use "sudo" instead, which will prompt for the user's password in the terminal itself (as opposed to gksudo which I believe uses a graphical popup). Sudo works on both Linux and OS X.