Richard Miller wrote:
Ken,
What I am doing is turning file sharing on and off on a Mac. The
standard shell script one might use to do this doesn't seem to work when
the file sharing control panel is in its "locked" state.
do shell script "/usr/sbin/AppleFileServer" password "x" with
administrator
privileges
Turning off with:
do shell script "/usr/bin/killall AppleFileServer" password "x" with
administrator privileges
When it is locked, I was using Applescript to unlock it. But that
requires putting in the password and then closing the dialog box. That's
where the problem is coming from.
I tend to think that's a good thing. If an administrator has locked file
sharing (or any other preference,) there's a reason. Seems to me it
would be a security hole if anyone were able to unlock system prefs
behind the user's back -- malware would certainly take advantage of
that. I think my solution would be to see if the script succeeds, and if
not, put up an error dialog informing the user of the problem. Then let
them make the decision about what to do.
Personally, as a user, I would avoid software that changes my
preferences like that. I'm not even real comfortable with it turning
file sharing on and off without my knowledge. I'd much prefer that the
software tell me about its requirements and let me do it.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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