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Terminal & "sudo" with "password" & "with administrative privileges"
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Terminal & "sudo" with "password" & "with administrative privileges"


  • Subject: Terminal & "sudo" with "password" & "with administrative privileges"
  • From: Bob Majors <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:48:56 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Terminal & "sudo" with "password" & "with administrative privileges"

I used to run a script as follows that worked in a previous (10.2 / 10.3?)
Mac OS, but is not working under the current 10.4.  The machine in use now
is new; built from scratch.

tell application "Terminal"

   activate
   do shell script "sudo chown -R user01 /Users/user01" password
"thepassword" with administrator privileges

end tell

(Note: "thepassword" is the Administrator password.)

"AppleScript Error.  Terminal got an error: A privilege violation occurred."

I also tried invoking sudo (and entering the password manually) from
Terminal, then running the script; same results.

Running this command manually works.

Doing an ls (prior to running the command) I see:

drwxr-xr-x 15 user01 staff 510 Oct 10 2005 user01

Ideas?  Thanks.

Bob


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