STPrivilegedTask

An NSTask-like wrapper around the macOS Security Framework's AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges function to run shell commands with root privileges in Objective-C / Cocoa.

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bsd-3-clause License

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$18.7K

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$51.3K

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