Added authorized install with a script to do the copy.

chrome/installer/mac/app/AuthorizedInstall.m

Index: chrome/installer/mac/app/AuthorizedInstall.m
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+// Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#import "AuthorizedInstall.h"
+
+@interface AuthorizedInstall () {
+  NSFileHandle* communicationFile_;
+  NSString* destinationAppBundlePath_;
+}
+@end
+
+@implementation AuthorizedInstall
+// Does the setup needed to authorize a tool to run as admin.
+- (OSStatus)setUpAuthorization:(AuthorizationRef*)authRef {
+  OSStatus status = AuthorizationCreate(NULL, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,
+                                        kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, authRef);
+
+  AuthorizationItem items = {kAuthorizationRightExecute, 0, NULL, 0};
+  AuthorizationRights rights = {1, &items};
+  AuthorizationFlags flags =
+      kAuthorizationFlagDefaults | kAuthorizationFlagInteractionAllowed |
+      kAuthorizationFlagPreAuthorize | kAuthorizationFlagExtendRights;
+
+  status = AuthorizationCopyRights(*authRef, &rights, NULL, flags, NULL);
+  return status;
+}
+
+// Starts up the proccess with privileged permissions.
+- (void)startPrivilegedTool:(const char*)toolPath
+              withArguments:(const char**)args
+              authorization:(AuthorizationRef)authRef
+                     status:(OSStatus)status {
+  if (status != errAuthorizationSuccess)
+    return;
+
+  FILE* file;
+#pragma clang diagnostic push
+#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
+  status = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(
+      authRef, toolPath, kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, (char* const*)args, &file);
+#pragma clang diagnostic pop
+  communicationFile_ = [[NSFileHandle alloc] initWithFileDescriptor:fileno(file)
+                                                     closeOnDealloc:YES];
+}
+
+// Starts up same proccess as above without privileged permissions.
+- (void)startUnprivilegedTool:(NSString*)toolPath withArguments:(NSArray*)args {
+  NSPipe* pipe = [NSPipe pipe];
+  NSTask* task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
+  [task setArguments:args];
+  [task setLaunchPath:toolPath];
+  [task setStandardInput:pipe];
+  [task launch];
+  communicationFile_ = [pipe fileHandleForWriting];
+}
+
+// Determines which "Applications" folder to use based on authorization.
+// There are three possible scenarios and two possible return values.
+//   1) /Applications is returned if:
+//     a) The user authenticates the app.
+//     b) The user doesn't authenticate but is an admin.
+//   2) /Users/username/Applications is returned if:
+//     c) The user doesn't authenticate and is not an admin.

[Elly Fong-Jones, 2016/08/24 16:39:22]

This comment is so good. You can refer to /Users/username as just "$HOME"; it's
idiomatic on macOS and other unixes, so this path is $HOME/Applications

[ivanhernandez, 2016/08/24 18:23:17]

Done.

+- (NSString*)getApplicationsFolder:(BOOL)isAuthorized {
+  NSFileManager* manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
+  NSArray* applicationDirectories = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(
+      NSApplicationDirectory, NSLocalDomainMask, YES);
+  if (isAuthorized ||
+      [manager isWritableFileAtPath:applicationDirectories.firstObject]) {
+    return applicationDirectories.firstObject;
+  } else {
+    NSString* usersApplicationsDirectory =
+        [NSString pathWithComponents:@[ NSHomeDirectory(), @"Applications" ]];
+    if (![manager fileExistsAtPath:usersApplicationsDirectory]) {
+      [manager createDirectoryAtPath:usersApplicationsDirectory
+          withIntermediateDirectories:NO
+                           attributes:nil
+                                error:nil];
+    }
+    return usersApplicationsDirectory;
+  }
+}
+
+// Attempts to gain authorization to run installation tool with elevated
+// permissions.
+// Then starts the tool with the appropiate paths for the tools elevation
+// status.
+- (BOOL)loadInstallationTool {
+  AuthorizationRef authRef = NULL;
+  OSStatus status = [self setUpAuthorization:&authRef];
+  BOOL isAuthorized = (status == errAuthorizationSuccess);
+
+  NSString* toolPath =
+      [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"copy_to_disk" ofType:@"sh"];
+  NSFileManager* manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
+  if (![manager fileExistsAtPath:toolPath]) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  NSString* applicationsDirectory = [self getApplicationsFolder:isAuthorized];
+  destinationAppBundlePath_ = [NSString pathWithComponents: @[
+      applicationsDirectory, @"Google Chrome.app"]];

[Elly Fong-Jones, 2016/08/24 16:39:22]

no more Chromo? :)

[ivanhernandez, 2016/08/24 18:23:17]

This app is moving up in the world.

+
+  if (isAuthorized) {
+    const char* args[] = {[applicationsDirectory UTF8String], NULL};
+    [self startPrivilegedTool:[toolPath UTF8String]
+                withArguments:args
+                authorization:authRef
+                       status:status];
+  } else {
+    NSArray* args = @[ applicationsDirectory ];
+    [self startUnprivilegedTool:toolPath withArguments:args];
+  }
+
+  AuthorizationFree(authRef, kAuthorizationFlagDestroyRights);
+  return true;
+}
+
+- (NSString*)startInstall:(NSString*)appBundlePath {
+  [self sendMessageToTool:appBundlePath];
+  [self sendMessageToTool:@"\n"];

[Elly Fong-Jones, 2016/08/24 16:39:22]

that's odd - why is the newline necessary? is the tool waiting for it? if it's
always necessary, maybe sendMessageToTool: should append it?

[ivanhernandez, 2016/08/24 18:23:16]

Good point, having sendMessageToTool append the newline is better. Added a
comment to sendMessageToTool to explain why appending the newline character is
necessary.

+  return destinationAppBundlePath_;
+}
+
+// Sends a message to the tool's stdin.
+- (void)sendMessageToTool:(NSString*)message {
+  [communicationFile_
+      writeData:[message dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
+}
+
+@end