Administrator Privilege in Mac OS X app

If the Terminal command requires Administrator Privilege (aka sudo), use AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges instead. The following will create a file named “com.developers-life.test” is the root directory “/System/Library/Caches”.

AuthorizationRef authorizationRef;

FILE *pipe = NULL;
OSStatus err = AuthorizationCreate ( nil,
                                   kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,
                                   kAuthorizationFlagDefaults,
                                    &authorizationRef );

char *command = "/usr/bin/touch";
char *args [ ] = { "/System/Library/Caches/com.developers-life.test", nil };

err = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges (authorizationRef,
                                         command,
                                         kAuthorizationFlagDefaults,
                                         args,
                                          &pipe );