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Ok? I don't know if it's the OS on behalf of the app or not. It's a password prompt that doesn't even have an affordance for biometrics, unlike other MacOS admi
by mvdtnz 1y ago
Ok? I don't know if it's the OS on behalf of the app or not. It's a password prompt that doesn't even have an affordance for biometrics, unlike other MacOS admin prompts. It's commonplace in MacOS applications.
This is an example of what I'm talking about https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/1geva4f/how_do_i_stop_this_on_end_user_accounts_admin/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/1geva4f/how_do_i_sto...
- afandian 1y agoThis is good for security becuase you're giving temporary access for a helper binary to do privileged stuff in a limited scope. From the UX perspective, yes, it is triggered from the app. It's been a long time since I used the Core Foundation API but you trigger a request, and then get back a token from the OS that grants you permission to do stuff. I don't know if this is current or not: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts/03authtasks/authtasks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000995-CH206-TPXREF16 https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...