Re: Applescript to write answers to individual file names
Re: Applescript to write answers to individual file names
- Subject: Re: Applescript to write answers to individual file names
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:58:04 -0800
On Dec 7, 2005, at 1:01 PM, David Thompson wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am new to this board and am glad I have found it. I am trying (ha ha
trying) to figure out how to write an applescript (or build it through
automator) in which the script does the following:
take the input from a popup window: enter your user name, and takes
the answer and writes it into a file in /tmp/uname
I also would like the popup window to ask for the users" password and
take that answer and write it to a file in /tmp/passwd
I need to have 2 separate files.
The reason I need this is I need to have a user friendly interface in
order to question users for their username and passwords and then take
those 2 answers and write them into another file within the system.
I know that in UNIX scripting its easy to write the file such as:
username answer > /tmp/uname
This doesn't appear to work the same in the applescript world.
Any help that I might be able to get on this subject would be greatly
appreciated as I am lost on the whole applescript world.
I apologize if this topic has been covered in length before.
Ouch... well, assuming you already know what a terrible idea it is to
write someone's password out in plain text like this... it's quite easy
to do in many ways. First, get your value into an applescript varial:
set theUsername to text returned of display dialog "Whats your
username" default answer "me"
Then write out that variable to the file of your choice... in fact you
could use the exact same method as you mentioned above, just calling it
via an Applescript command:
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of theUserName & " > /tmp/uname"
Seriously though, if a consultant did something like this with my users
and their password it wouldn't be a long relationship. Chances are
there is a much better way to get the login details from the users to
whatever app you're feeding without doing this.
-R
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