I have an uninstaller that calls AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges to run some tools that perform cleanup. On OS X 10.6 everything is fine. On 10.5 I'm getting -1 as the return value. The documentation doesn't cover what this means.
Can anyone shed some light?
I'm not sure what -1 means, but check if TMPDIR exists in environment and if it points to existing directory. If directory doesn't exist, unset TMPDIR. I don't remember what exactly it will return in this case, but this was very annoying bug to find...
Maybe they finally fixed it in 10.6.
-1, as far as I can tell, just means fail. Turns out my call to AuthorizationCreate() was failing in interesting ways, so AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() was actually behaving sort of reasonable.
Still, Apple: document your APIs better. KTHX.