Common writable folders

[Chris Sheffield]

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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