Re: sudoing into root
Re: sudoing into root
- Subject: Re: sudoing into root
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:53:48 +0200
(sorry, forgot to change the recipient field :-( )
Thanks for the quick reply!
Yes, this helps to explain the behavior observed by Gnarlie.
Axel
Christopher Nebel wrote:
On May 23, 2004, at 3:00 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
Would be interesting to know how exactly the 'do shell script ...
with administrator privileges' is implemented, and what are its
relationships with authorization services and sudo.
Currently, 'do shell script "x" with administrator privileges' gets
turned into this [1]:
sh -c 'echo password | sudo -S x'
If you don't supply the password in the command itself, you get a
dialog asking for it.
However, this is bogus in at least three ways that I can think of off
the top of my head, and it's all being rewritten to use the Security
APIs instead of sudo(8)
Would indeed be more consistent with the behavior of MacOS apps.
-- coming to a Future Release near you.
Aaaah...
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
[1] Technically, it calls execve("/bin/sh", { "sh", "-c", "echo
password | sudo -p \"\" -S x" }, *(_NSGetEnviron())).
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