SMJobBless
I posted a few months ago about the problems I’d encountered with performing privileged actions from a Mac OS X app - in my case, installing a command line utility in /usr/local/bin - and that all the examples of this that I’d come across used an approach which was now deprecated. You can find my original post here: Escalating privileges on Mac OS X securely, and without using deprecated methods.
This week I implemented a much-requested feature in SourceTree for the upcoming 1.3 release (beta 1 went out on Monday, this will make it into beta 2) - a command-line tool so you can quickly pull up SourceTree for the repository you’re in from a terminal. Writing the command-line tool was trivial, but when I came to implement the menu item which would install it in /usr/local/bin, which inherently needs privilege escalation, it turned out to be a lot more complicated than I expected.