Common writable folders

[Phil Davis]

Hi Chris,

Is it possible to:
- copy the files to a place where the user does have permission
- do all your changes
- copy them back to the original place?

Then it seems like there might only be one dialog.

Just a thought -
Phil Davis


Chris Sheffield wrote:
> I've got another question about using this. Hope you don't mind.
> 
> Is there anyway to suppress the dialog if it has already displayed once 
> in a session? I realize there's a timeout thing with sudo that 
> eventually expires (my Unix knowledge is limited), and at that point a 
> new dialog would have to appear anyway.
> 
> But here's my situation. I have a Rev script that performs a few 
> different tasks in one swipe, some of which require admin privileges on 
> the system. They involve changing a certain file's permissions, editing 
> the file, then changing the permissions back. But it seems that every 
> time the command changes, even if it's simply "chmod 750" to "chmod 
> 755", a dialog comes up again. So I'm ending up with 2 or 3 dialogs 
> right in a row. Any way to keep this from happening? Is there some way 
> to extract the user name and password and then pass those like in your 
> second example? That's probably not a very kosher thing to do, though.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:26 PM, 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
>>
>>
>> sims
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