Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux
Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at sonic.net
Wed Jul 3 12:41:11 EDT 2019
On 7/3/19 8:28 AM, Dalton Calford via use-livecode wrote:
> I am looking to read/write odbc settings from within livecode, but due to
> user rights, I want to allow for sudoer style rights elevation.
>
> Is there a way to present the user with a dialog asking for password from
> within livecode?
sudo -S is your friend. Try something like this:
on mouseUp pMouseButton
local tCommands
local tPassword
put "apt update" into tCommands
ask password "type your sudo password"
put it into tPassword
get shell("echo" && tPassword && "| sudo -S" && tCommands)
put it into field 1
end mouseUp
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Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at gmail.com
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