Thank you Mario, the sudo <echo password thing looks like it might do what I
need... I will give it a try and see if that does the trick.
Jeff
On Apr 8, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Mario Steele wrote:
> Hey Jeff,
>
> While this is probably not the MacRuby way, this is the Linux Ruby way, and
> should translate over well to Mac OS X. To have your script run as Root, you
> simply do the following:
>
> if Process::UID.euid != 0 || Process::UID.rid != 0
> # Prompt for Password here with a Custom GUI
> `sudo #{__FILE__} < echo #{password}`
> # OR if your not totally oblivious to using osascript to launch your Ruby
> App
> #`osascript -e do shell script "#{__FILE__}" with administrator privileges`
> exit!
> end
>
> But I don't know if this would work with MacRuby's setup. Haven't really
> messed with it in a while.
>
> hth,
>
> Mario
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Dyck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all, I'm desperately hoping for some help here...
>
> I'm a System Admin for a School District with thousands of Macs. In the past
> I developed an AppleScript Studio application that our technicians used to
> backup and restore user accounts when we do system migrations and image
> updates (basically rsync with some internal logic to filter out files that
> might conflict).
>
> Anyway, with AppleScript Studio long deprecated, we're starting to see some
> issues with it running on 10.8, so I've started working on a replacement in
> MacRuby (which I've started to move to for other development)... I love Ruby
> vs the pain of AppleScript, especially for things like dealing with xml and
> whatnot, but I'm running into one HUGE challenge...
>
> My app requires admin privileges to backup and restore user accounts and
> restore permissions. In AppleScript Studio this was relatively simple to do
> using the "do shell script with admin privs' command. In MacRuby.... I'm
> stumped.
>
> I've dug in a bit into the Authorization framework, and looked at some of
> Apple's documentation for splitting your app into helper tools... but it's
> difficult enough to follow the Obj-C stuff, migrating that to Ruby is
> probably over my head.
>
> So long story short, anyone have some samples of how to do this with MacRuby?
> I'd need to be able to do things like:
> • Calculate size of folders and count of files in another user
> account (and get result back)
> • Send an RSYNC command as admin (and get feedback for calculating
> progress)
>
> Here's hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff
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