Is it worth persevering with Macports_Framework?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2013-02-12 05:29, Guido Soranzio wrote:
> On 11/02/2013, Ian Wadham wrote:
> 
>> I see that Cocoa has NSTask and NSPipe classes and that Guido's
>> Guigna app is using them in its GuignaAgent class.  I also like this approach
>> because there is loose binding between the processes.
> 
> A more canonical approach would require to implement a helper tool since
> MacPorts needs root privileges. As of Snow Leopard and beyond, the
> ServiceManagement.framework is the preferred method of managing
> privilege escalation on Mac OS X and should be used instead of
> earlier approaches such as BetterAuthorizationSample or directly calling AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges:
> <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/SMJobBless/Introduction/Intro.html>.

The MacPorts.framework has a helper tool which bases its authorization
on BetterAuthorizationSample [1].

> Porticus had a very solid management of privileged processes
> and that's why I petitioned its author to open source it:
> <http://porticus.alittledrop.com/ downloads/Porticus.zip>.
> Unfortunately Richard Laing hadn't the time to transition
> Porticus to OS X Lion and I decided for a totally different route.

Thanks for reminding us that this code is available!

Rainer

[1]
https://trac.macports.org/browser/contrib/MacPorts_Framework/MPHelperTool.m