Re: This Used To Work
Re: This Used To Work
- Subject: Re: This Used To Work
- From: Marconi <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:21:58 -0700
At 8:56 AM -0800 3/24/05, Andrew Oliver issued a series of ones and zeros which decoded as:
>On 3/24/05 8:45 AM, "Marconi" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> For terminal commands that require root, this used to work:
>>
> > tell application "Terminal"
>> activate
>> do script "sudo requires_sudo_or_root" in front window
>> delay 2
>> do script "my_password" in front window
>> end tell
>
>Why are you doing it this way instead of the normal:
>
>do script "requires_sudo_or_root" with administrator privileges password
>"mypassword"
OK, I found the correct syntax.
do shell script "command" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges
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