Tracing directory contents

How can one trace the content of a directory? The directory here refers to non home and non current directory. Explicitly, I have three directories

1. 10.5.8 - current directory
2. Development
3. Backup

So, how can I undergo file operation like create, accessing or deleting on Development or Backup directory other than my current directory?

Regards, Lenin

Your terminology is hard to understand. Do you mean you want to monitor a folder (and its children) for changes, read/modify folders/files to which you don't have permission, or both?

To monitor for changes, check out the FSEvents API.

To obtain permission to perform a privileged operation, check out the Authorization Services API.