STPrivilegedTask - Objective C class

An NSTask-like wrapper around AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() in the Security API to run shell commands with root privileges in Mac OS X.

Example of usage:

STPrivilegedTask *privilegedTask = [[STPrivilegedTask alloc] init];

[privilegedTask setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/touch"];
NSArray *args = [NSArray arrayWithObject:@"/etc/my_test_file"];
[privilegedTask setArguments:args];
[privilegedTask setCurrentDirectoryPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]];

//set it off
OSStatus err = [privilegedTask launch];
if (err != errAuthorizationSuccess) {
    if (err == errAuthorizationCanceled) {
        NSLog(@"User cancelled");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"Something went wrong");
    }
}

// Read output file handle for data
NSFileHandle *readHandle = [privilegedTask outputFileHandle];
NSData *outputData = [readHandle readDataToEndOfFile];
NSString *outputString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:outputData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

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