Re: do shell script and passwords
Re: do shell script and passwords
- Subject: Re: do shell script and passwords
- From: garrett <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:35:32 -0500
Sometime 'round 06/07/2002 04:25 PM, Alex Robinson at
email@hidden described:
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> How do I get feedback from a script that the command sent an incorrect
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> password?
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You should be getting an execution error, but...
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> Am I missing something? Is my correct password being cached somewhere by
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> some part of this process (before I tried to create an error trapping
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> routine for a bad password, I had been using the script with the correct
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> password).
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Yep. The admin password (as with sudo) is cached for 5 minutes by default -
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see man sudo. Run the command sudo -k to make sure that the cache is
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deleted. If you can still run the process with a dodgy password then
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something is definitely up
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well I have bad news and worse news....
some background: rawrequest NEEDS sudo to run
lets take the command sudo /usr/sbin/rawrequest
if I do that in the terminal - I need to enter a pw... all good
now if I wanna do it from AS I can invoke:
property AdminPass : "mypassword"
do shell script "/usr/sbin/rawrequest" administrator privileges yes password
AdminPass
result is ""
guess what - it runs rawrequest - EVEN WITH A BAD PASSWORD... I have run
sudo -k from the terminal and from AS. I have restarted... I have waited 15,
30, 60, 300 mins... in other words... if I invoke this from AS I do NOT need
a password... as a matter of fact....
do shell script "/usr/sbin/rawrequest"
works too. what is going on... could someone actually try this out.. they
can get the rawrequest PKG installer that comes with WhatRoute 1.8 rather
than speculate... because I am doing everything suggested and guess what..
no go!
and whether u may think I have the syntax wrong in the do shell script
command (like not saying "sudo /usr/... etc) it still properly launches the
process...
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garrett
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