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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