Run command in Terminal from Application

[DarkMalloc]

Hey guys,

I have an app that needs to run a command in the terminal.

The command has to be run as root, but I'm not sure how to do this.

I am using the standard

system("COMMANDHERE");

to run the command.

I would be extremely grateful if any of you guys could shed some light on this topic.

Thankyou,

DarkMalloc

[skewlboy]

You wanted to ask the root password to user and then system("su -c app")?

Since it has to be jailbroken to even consider running as root, if you deploy it using Cydia, you can include an installation script that would grant your command the suid bit (chmod s+u), so that script would be runnable by user mobile, but would run as root.

That's the approach I use at least.
Dunno if there's a more interactive way.