Re: do shell script administrator privileges bug?
Re: do shell script administrator privileges bug?
- Subject: Re: do shell script administrator privileges bug?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:23:36 -0700
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Rob Morton wrote:
If you have an & in your password, you can not authenticate [do shell
script with administrator privileges] without typing \&. ... Seems to
me these things should be handled in the background so
the user does not have to type in their "special" AppleScript password.
And you'd be right, too! As it happens, we already have a bug filed on
this -- it's actually a general problem with any characters that sh
interprets specially. (The original report was from someone with a
semicolon in their password.) There isn't any known workaround aside
from the one you've already discovered, unless you count "change your
password so it doesn't have an ampersand."
To learn how to submit bugs properly, go read
<
http://developer.apple.com/faq/techsupport.html#submitbug>.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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