getlantern/lantern — Issue #139: only prompt for admin password once rather than repeatedly
Author: pants
Created: 2012-01-30 21:57:37+00:00
State: open
Labels: installer, mac

from #68:

> here's some prior art courtesy of [Charles Proxy](http://www.charlesproxy.com/)
> ![screenshot](http://i.imm.io/fiTY.png)
> would be awesome if we could figure out how it's able to only prompt for your password once and modify your system proxy settings whenever it wants without prompting thereafter

(forker):

> One way around is to just create a setuid binary in charge of only the proxy/unproxy junk during the install process