Hi Jacque,
Couple questions. Have you tried running the command from Terminal?
If so, does it work okay there? Also, have you tried running it from
the AppleScript script editor? If it fails there, you might get a
more descriptive error message.
One thing that I'm doing different is instead of putting the entire
command into a variable, I'm only putting in the actual shell script
part. So my code would read something like:
do "do shell script" && quote & tCmd & quote && "with administrator
privileges"
I don't know if that makes a difference or not. It shouldn't, but it
is working for me just fine. Granted, I am only changing permissions
on a single file, not on a folder.
Just a couple ideas. Sorry I can't really provide more concrete help.
Chris
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:13 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
sims wrote:
At 8:48 PM -0800 1/17/07, Richard Gaskin wrote:
You mean Apple provides no way for any scripting language to
request authorization on its own? Not even AppleScript?
For the dialog use AppleScript:
do shell script "command" with administrator privileges
To pass other items use:
do shell script "command" user name "me" password "mypassword"
with administrator privileges
I'm having trouble with this. I do get the official Apple password
dialog, but can't execute a command.
I want to change permissions on a folder. This script fails with
"execution error":
put "chmod 777 /Library/Application Support/myfolder/" into tShellCmd
put "do shell script" &"e& tShellCmd "e&& "with
administrator privileges" into tCmd
do tCmd as applescript
put the result
So I figured I needed to escape the space. When I do that, this
script fails with "compiler error":
put "chmod 777 /Library/Application\ Support/myfolder/" into tShellCmd
put "do shell script" &"e& tShellCmd "e&& "with
administrator privileges" into tCmd
do tCmd as applescript
put the result
If I substitute colons instead of slashes I go back to "execution
error". Adding "sudo" to the front of the command doesn't help (but
I'm running as admin right now, so maybe that's why.)
What's the right command to allow any user, admin or not, to type
in an admin password and set the permissions on this folder? Am I
using this feature correctly?
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HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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