Re: do shell script
Re: do shell script
- Subject: Re: do shell script
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:08:21 -0700
On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Andrew Oliver wrote:
I figured this out. If you enter a correct password, then when you
subsequently run it with a wrong password, it does not return the
error
until you quit the script and run it again, using a wrong password the
first time--but if you ever enter the correct password, it will no
longer return the error.
This is more likely to be a timing issue than a 'quit and restart' fix.
'with administrator privileges' currently uses sudo (see Chris' recent
note), sudo maintains a timeout for each user such that subsequent
'sudo'
commands do not require re-authentication. I'm guessing that
subsequent 'do
shell scripts' within that timeout don't pass the 'incorrect' password
since
no password is required anyway (either that or it does pass the
password
which sudo silently ignores)
I was about to post that it was more complex than I had thought because
the quit and restart didn't work, even with quitting Script editor
completely.
Thanks for the explanation.
Here is what I hope is the final version of the script:
set PWDMessage to "What is your password?"
display dialog "Do you want Sudden Motion Sensor turned on or off?"
buttons {"On", "Off", "Cancel"} default button "Cancel"
set button_reply to button returned of the result
set pword to setPWD(PWDMessage, button_reply)
on setPWD(prompt, button_reply)
set pword to text returned of (display dialog prompt default answer "")
my setMotion(pword, button_reply)
end setPWD
on setMotion(pword, button_reply)
try
if button_reply is "Off" then
do shell script "pmset -a ams 0 2>&1" password pword with
administrator privileges
else if button_reply is "On" then
do shell script "pmset -a ams 1 2>&1" password pword with
administrator privileges
end if
on error msg
set pwdmsg to "The password was incorrect." & return & "Please enter
your password."
my setPWD(pwdmsg, button_reply)
end try
end setMotion
-- Michelle
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