Application Privilege Escalation OS X Software

Question

I did some jerking, and the main ideas that I saw in pop-up mode use setuid / getuid and use authorization services (which for some reason give me a character error when compiling, but it seems not to be recommended now).

My application should be able to request root access (to access the raw drive) at some point, preferably using the OS X authentication dialog box (I'm new to OS X, so I have no idea what to call).

Answer 1

The authorization service is pretty well supported by AFAIK.

Here is a link to a tutorial (with sample projects!) That you can use to run a small tool where you can get a priviledges administrator, and then you can call the setpriority API for your calling process (documentation related to you).