Shell Command with Sudo

[Justin Sloan]

Peter,

That is a good suggestion if the application was not meant for mass
deployment. Otherwise each machine's sudoers file would have to be
edited accordingly, which would be a bummer for users that do not know
how to do so. And that is likely the majority of Mac users. I would
venture to say that the majority of Mac users never even opened the
Terminal.

The solution is elegant, I believe, in that it will work on any Mac OS
X machine and takes advantage of Bash' s flexibility with Rev's shell
structure.

Happy coding!
 - Justin


On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/12/2010 12:08 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>>
>> Is there a reason you cannot use the NOPASSWD option in sudo?  Maybe this
>> is
>> not how it works in OSX, but what you'd normally do is to edit
>> /etc/sudoers
>> to allow this particular user to perform this particular command with the
>> no
>> password option, and its done.  If you do this, the command can be limited
>> to one with specific options.  For instance, you can allow shutdown with
>> the
>> -h option, but not the -r option.  No-one has to know the root password
>> then
>> and it is not written anyplace.  Yes, you do have to know it to edit
>> /etc/sudoers.
>>
>
> This is all very charming, but I wonder how one would
> effect this from a standalone on an end-user's machine . . .  :)
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