Re: do shell script
Re: do shell script
- Subject: Re: do shell script
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:18:28 -0400
At 11:47 AM -0800 2/16/05, Andrew Oliver wrote:
On 2/16/05 11:21 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Feb 16, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Bill Briggs wrote:
It doesn't return an error to the script.
Hmm. It works on my PowerBook. I get an "incorrect password attempt"
error back from Script Editor.
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)
By default the timeout is 5 minutes, so you have 5 minutes to do any other
'with administrator privileges' commands before you need to enter the
password again.
I think your explanation is the correct one.
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