Re: script for system Authentication dialog box.
Re: script for system Authentication dialog box.
- Subject: Re: script for system Authentication dialog box.
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:45:39 -0700
On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
On 7/20/05 23:34, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
Authenticating (officially)
once gives you a five-minute window during which you will not
need to
authenticate again. For instance, try this:
set x to do shell script "whoami" with administrator privileges
set y to do shell script "whoami" with administrator privileges
{x, y}
Notice that you only have to type in your password once.
Indeed. Which is a surprise, given that I have set the gracetime
to 0[*],
which *does* do what I expect it to do in Terminal.app. Why would
AS ignore
the grace period?
[*] by having Defaults:ALL timestamp_timeout=0 in /etc/sudoers
IIRC, this is using the auth frameworks, not sudoers.
As of 10.4, yes, that's true. The grace period is still
configurable, but in a different place; see the
"system.privilege.admin" key in /etc/authorization. However, there's
not as much need (at least to set it to zero), since the grace period
applies for *precisely* the script that was authorized, unlike the
old sudo-based implementation, which unlocked sudo everywhere in the
system.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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