Re: Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/3/19 9:59 AM, Dalton Calford wrote: nevermind about the /.  Just discovering '' vs "" usage. Still learning livecode and the cheat sheets are not as robust as I would prefer. Re that, I see bug #16941 has a status of "AWAITING_MERGE". https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16941 and

Re: Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
nevermind about the /. Just discovering '' vs "" usage. Still learning livecode and the cheat sheets are not as robust as I would prefer. On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 12:50, Dalton Calford wrote: > Thanks Mark, > > I was playing with shell() to see if it would work. I am having some > path/string is

Re: Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Thanks Mark, I was playing with shell() to see if it would work. I am having some path/string issues and can't find a simple example script to show me what I am doing wrong. If I am just using the message box, I can type "put shell(vdir)" and it works perfectly for the default path. If instea

Re: Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/3/19 8:28 AM, Dalton Calford via use-livecode wrote: I am looking to read/write odbc settings from within livecode, but due to user rights, I want to allow for sudoer style rights elevation. Is there a way to present the user with a dialog asking for password from within livecode? sudo -S

Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
I am looking to read/write odbc settings from within livecode, but due to user rights, I want to allow for sudoer style rights elevation. Is there a way to present the user with a dialog asking for password from within livecode? best regards Dalton ___