Re: AuthorizationRightSet() failing to add a right

On Dec 31, 2009, at 15:54 , Graham Lee wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> firstly, happy new year to those of you using NSGregorianCalendar :)
> 

and to me, for solving the problem as soon as I hit send :-/
> 
>        authResult = AuthorizationRightSet(auth,
>                                           kRightName,
>                                           CFSTR(kAuthorizationRuleClassDeny),
>                                           NULL,
>                                           NULL,
>                                           NULL);

This was a parameter error, the rule should in this case be a dictionary with the k...Deny string as the value of the @"class" key. What I should have done before posting was to look in /var/log/secure.log to see what the securityd thought of my attempt to set the right.

Cheers,
Graham.