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>We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple). Is it a native OS X dialog API, or native OS X au
by SSLy 10y ago
>We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).
Is it a native OS X dialog API, or native OS X authentication API? I could make a password prompt myself, and call that "being official Win32 API".
Can you show me the class where you invoke it, so I can judge for myself?
- tjl 10y agoIt's a standard OS X authentication API. The overview of the authorization stuff is discussed in: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts/01introduction/introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000995 https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi... If you look under "Authorization Services Tasks" you'll see there's details about calling a privileged installer.