Obtaining Administrator privileges with NSTask

When using NSTask is there a way to make the admin authentication prompt appear the way "with administrator privileges" does in applescript

The link you provided doesn't work but nothing a quick google couldn't solve... so for the sake of testing how things work I tried the code below but it just prompts me for a password it never carries anything out... what am I doing wrong
- (IBAction)testMe:(id)sender;
AuthorizationRef authorizationRef;
OSStatus status;
status = AuthorizationCreate(NULL, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,
kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, &authorizationRef);
char *tool= "/usr/bin/mkdir";
char *args[] = {"/test",NULL};
FILE *pipe = NULL;
status = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(authorizationRef, tool, kAuthorizationFlagDefaults, args, &pipe);
@end

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