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[William Prothero]

Thanks, Matthias. I had tried it without a dollar sign, but I’ll re-check.
Thanks for looking at this.
Bill

> On Jan 27, 2022, at 2:14 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> William,
> 
> i just tried in a Monterey VM
> 
> the syntax 
> pw=YourPassword; echo $pw | sudo -S ....... works here as long as i do not have a $ sign in my password.
> 
> The problem seems to be that the dollar sign is a special character in shell. I am not a shell expert, but i've read that strings that contain dollar signs has to be in single quotes.
> 
> I've putted the password in single quotes and it worked then altough it contained the dollar sign.
> 
> I will adjust the sample stack.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 27.01.2022 um 12:01 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> As i have still 11.6.2 installed i cannot test, if this might be something Monterey specific.
>> I am currently downloading Monterey and will install it onto a VM, so i could test. But the 12GB take some time to download.
>> 
>> There is a free tool available from Late Night Software called SD Notary, which also does the needed steps to get a notarized app.
>> https://latenightsw.com/sd-notary-notarizing-made-easy/ <https://latenightsw.com/sd-notary-notarizing-made-easy/>
>> 
>> Maybe you try that .
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 27.01.2022 um 02:06 schrieb William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
>>> 
>>> Matthias:
>>> I tried the command in the shell
>>> It didn’t work as shown in the status field.
>>> I then switched to superuser, with the password, and it ran the following without complaint.
>>> xattr -cr "/Users/prothero/Oceanography Projects/LiveCode-RunRev Projects/1-AA-Current Projects/PT_Explorer Projects/EarthExplorer_CurrentWkg-D4/EExp Builds/Earth Explorer2/Earth Explorer.app"
>>> 
>>> Weird: I entered the command as you suggested below, and it asked for a password, as expected. BUT, it didn’t recognize the password I put in. Then I just did an SU command, it asked for the password and recognized my password. Then the action worked. I’m on OS 12.1 (Apple).
>>> 
>>> My shell password has a dollar sign, 2 numbers and 2 capital letters. Could that be the problem?
>>> 
>>> —This is the shell/terminal text:
>>> WProtherosMBP4:~ prothero$ sudo -S xattr -cr "/Users/prothero/Oceanography Projects/LiveCode-RunRev Projects/1-AA-Current Projects/PT_Explorer Projects/EarthExplorer_CurrentWkg-D4/EExp Builds/Earth Explorer2/Earth Explorer.app"
>>> Password:
>>> Sorry, try again.
>>> WProtherosMBP4:~ prothero$ sudo -S xattr -cr "/Users/prothero/Oceanography Projects/LiveCode-RunRev Projects/1-AA-Current Projects/PT_Explorer Projects/EarthExplorer_CurrentWkg-D4/EExp Builds/Earth Explorer2/Earth Explorer.app"
>>> Password:
>>> Sorry, try again.
>>> 
>>> But this worked:
>>> WProtherosMBP4:~ prothero$ su
>>> Password:
>>> sh-3.2# 
>>> 
>>> I changed the shell pw to all lower case alphabetical letters. Same issue.When I entered the shell first, entering the same password, it worked. The command below didn’t. It asked me for the password and when I entered it, it refused. Hmm.. odd.
>>> WProtherosMBP4:~ prothero$ sudo -S  xattr -cr "/Users/prothero/Oceanography Projects/LiveCode-RunRev Projects/1-AA-Current Projects/PT_Explorer Projects/EarthExplorer_CurrentWkg-D4/EExp Builds/Earth Explorer2/Earth Explorer.app"
>>> Password:
>>> Sorry, try again.
>>> Password:
>>> Sorry, try again.
>>> Password:
>> 
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