1) User attempts non-permitted action.
2) Computer informs user about the policy problem.
3) Computer displays list of accounts that are permitted to perform the action.
4) User enters a password for one of the permitted accounts.
5) Computer proceeds.
Trivial and obvious to ones skilled in the art, but not exactly sudo.
Except for the bit about listing accounts with the proper rights, this has been a part of OSX for as long as I can remember. Certainly before April 2005. Is it really that easy to patent a well-known process by adding a trivial thing?
Surely this "trivial thing" is what is being patented though. I mean let's say hypothetically MS sues Apple, well Apple can say sure there are similarities but we don't do the accounts bit.
