How to run an app bundle as root?

On 11/3/06, Bob Ippolito < bobredivi.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> bobredivi.com> wrote:

On 11/3/06, Arve Knudsen < arve.knudsengmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">arve.knudsengmail.com> wrote:
>; Hello
>
> I'm writing a custom installation tool for OS X, which needs to run with
> root privileges. The installation tool is packaged into an app bundle by way
> of py2app. What I basically need to know is the best way of attaining root
> privileges in the tool, must this be done with
> AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges? I first tried this
> approach, writing a wrapper script which executes the main script in a
> privileged Python process. This doesn't quite work however, the resulting
> window behaves completely different from what one would expect. That is, it
> can't get focus and I can't command-tab to it.
>
> I thought of another approach, which is to first run a privileged program
&gt; which setuid's the bundle executable, and then re-execute the bundle. Would
> this be a good approach, and how can I execute the bundle programmatically?
>

Sounds like you're taking the wrong strategy here. The idea is to use
the privileged helper process to do *only* privileged operations.
Don't use it for UI stuff. That's just dangerous.

-bob