What kind of API should I use to elevate user privilege to super-user in a Mac OS X?
问题 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) 回答1: AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges with kAuthorizationRightExecute See 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,