Don't forget you can open a script as a process for update and then send whatever you need to it directly from livecode. I also seem to recall that its possible to open a process with elevated privileges but I can't find the info on that for some reason. If you can figure out that portion it could save quite a bit of hassle. Open the script with elevated privs, user is prompted for pword, voila'. I'll see if I can remember where the docs are for elevated process opening stuffs.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks guys. Yes, I know about sudo. The idea was to get the user to put > in > the root password on each occasion, not to store it someplace which you're > quite right of course would be very unwise. > > I think maybe livecode is not what I should be using for this, the right > way > is probably to have a shell script launched from a launcher on the desktop. > Its a bit complicated because what is needed is to launch a first script > which then calls a second one and executes as root. My second problem with > livecode was how to call the shell in such a way as to have the user enter > the password and then carry on with the script. > > Its not quite so user friendly if it is all done in a terminal window, but > it will work. > > Peter > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/lc-shell-and-command-line-tp4036681p4040142.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
