[slightly OT] using sudo -S via shell

[David Bovill]

On 22 Nov 2005, at 13:58, Ton Kuypers wrote:

> Couldn't get it to work, but found a much better solution on  
> "http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html"
>
> Now I just create an AppleScript and run it, works like a charm :-)

Thanks for the pointer! Something like this (not tested):

on sudo_DoCommand someShellCommand, myUserName, myPassword
     -- http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
     put "do shell script '[[someShellCommand]]' user name  
'[[myUserName]]' password '[[myPassword]]' with administrator  
privileges" into someAppleScript
     replace "'" with quote in someAppleScript
     put merge(someAppleScript) into someAppleScript
     do someAppleScript asw AppleScript
     return the result
end sudo_DoCommand