How to make the app run as root and pop a window up requires your password?

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Created Sep ’18

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I need to run some commands with system("");

but it said no permission.

but i don't want to run sudo /Applications/AppName/contents/Mac OS/AppName everytime.

Do you have good method to solve this?

Thanks.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’18

but i don't want to run
sudo /Applications/AppName/Contents/MacOS/AppName
everytime.

Indeed. Running your whole app as root is a very bad idea.

Can you explain more about the context here. For example:

What commands do you want to root?
What is your minimum deployment target?
What is your distribution model? Mac App Store? Or Developer ID?
If it’s the latter, is this intended to be distributed to a large number of users? Or just something you plan to use internally?

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