npyl/nsauthenticatedtask

NSTask but with the ability to run privileged code

NSAuthenticatedTask

UNDER DEVELOPMENT (currently supports basic functions)

A framework that adds administrator Authentication support to NSTask so you can execute your task with root privileges! Follows Apple's recommended way of doing it (using SMJobBlessHelper and XPC) so no deprecated APIs here!

Supported Features

• Standard (NSTask) functionality
• Launch Authenticated
• Pass arguments
• Pass current directory
• Custom Authentication Icon (still quite buggy, though! #3)
• Custom Authentication Text
• Pass environment variables
• Pipes (nearly done)

Projects Currently Using NSAuthenticatedTask

ManageConky (The de-facto Manager for Conky on macOS)
cocoasudo (a new implementation)

Attributions

Icons

Key by Luis Prado from the Noun Project

LICENSE

Dual-Licensed under 996ICU License and MIT License.

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SUPPORTING 💰

nsauthenticatedtask's Issues

Implement standard NSTask functionality

Side-effect of our implementation: Using apple's NSTask to store NSAuthenticatedTask information gives us the ability to throw default apple errors when required. :)

Introduce the SESSION concept

A SESSION (authorized session) is our concept for maintaining admin permissions for a requester even after an NSAuthenticatedTask instance has been destroyed.

This will allow cocoasudo to work authenticated even after cocoasudo exits.

Finally implement custom icon support

Code for this exists for quite a long time now, but it is still buggy.