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 fsjj...@gmail.com 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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