<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">If you don't mind the password being briefly sent in the clear (as part of the name of the process), you can use this:<BR>
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Which comes out to something that looks like:<BR>
echo 'MyPassword' | sudo MyCommand<BR>
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Unfortunately, open process appears to be still broken on OS X. If it wasn't, you could use the "-S" option to sudo to write the password to the process. This is really the way it should be done security-wise.<BR>
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(something like this)<BR>
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put "sudo -S"&&myCmd into theProcess<BR>
open process theProcess<BR>
write MyPassword&cr to process theProcess<BR>
read from process theProcess until eof<BR>
close process theProcess<BR>
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You can also, of course, execute AppleScript on Mac which should give you the same results as AppleScript Studio can achieve.<BR>
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You could also write the password to a temporary file and pass that to sudo.<BR>
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HTH.<BR>
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