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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by SSLy on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:00PM (#12466626)
>We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).

Is it a native OS X dialog API, or native OS X authentication API? I could make a password prompt myself, and call that "being official Win32 API".

Can you show me the class where you invoke it, so I can judge for myself?

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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by tjl on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:04PM (#12471602)
It's a standard OS X authentication API. The overview of the authorization stuff is discussed in:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi...

If you look under "Authorization Services Tasks" you'll see there's details about calling a privileged installer.

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