Making Mac OSX launchctl launch a process as root on startup

Question

My question is how to make a MacOSX daemon process using launchd start with root privileges automatically after a reboot?

I\'m writing an application for in house use th

Answer 1

You've put this in the wrong directory. LaunchAgents are processes run per-user. System processes go in /Library/LaunchDaemons. They are run as root. If you want this to run at startup, I recommend making that explicit with:

RunAtLoad