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[William Prothero]

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:


> On Jan 26, 2022, at 3:42 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> William,
> did you try to run that line from shell? Just as a test?
> Is it executed then without a problem?
> 
> Or could you try to execute this line here from shell
>> 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"
> You then should be asked for the sudo password. Is that working?
> 
> I am using here an alpha numeric password. I did not test with any symbols or umlauts. So maybe if your pw contains such special characters this might not be working or maybe macOS 12 is not accepting to pass the password using    echo.
> 
> To be honest i only tried with macOS up to 11.6.2.
> 
> If you want, we can discuss this further by private email. Use my list email first and i reply from my normal office email then. But not today. I need some sleep.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
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William Prothero
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