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  • Subject: SV: Write defaults
  • From: <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:40:24 +0100
  • Thread-topic: Write defaults

Axel,

After reading the man page once more I learned that you can set a path to a plist file, omitting the .plist extension.
The reason I try this is that the osascript LogoutHook stopped working on my G5 box. I don't know why, it still works on my Intel MacBook.

Thanks
Gunno I


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Ämne: Re: Write defaults

On 9/03/07 18:51, Gunno Ivansson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am testing a logouthook which is writing to the defaults. It works fine
> running from the terminal but won't work at logout as logouthooks are
> run as
> root.
> Is there any way to write to an other users defaults? (eg from root to my
> user). I tried putting an alias of the plist in the roots preferences but
> that didn't do the trick. The strange thing is that logged in as root
> I can
> read from this plist file but not set any values.


In a default install of Mac OS X, the root user may "su" or "sudo"
without even have to provide a password.
For example, you could try something like this:

    sudo -u someuser defaults write ...

where "someuser" is the user you want to act upon at logout.

Again, double-check and try with harmless things first... ;-)

HTH,
Axel
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