Re: Manipulating System Clock
Re: Manipulating System Clock
- Subject: Re: Manipulating System Clock
- From: Zack Jarrett <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:30 -0700
In an AppleScript applet that I maintain I use the following construct:
do shell script "whatever" with administrator privileges
That can be run under a non-admin account but will present a dialog asking for an admin username and password. Under an admin user account it will display the usual "type your password to allow the app to make changes" dialog.
Prompting for the username/password may not be the optimal solution. Perhaps you can build that section into a try/catch and upon failure you can run the application in some mode that does not require a change to the date/time.
Good luck!
Zack
On May 11, 2011, at 1:28 PM, George wrote:
> do shell script "/usr/sbin/systemsetup -setdate 'mm:dd:yy' -settime 'hh:mm:ss'"
>
> But there's a problem for me. You can use this trick only if the application is run under an administrative account. In other words, you cannot manipulate the system clock in this manner if the app is run under the guest account or a standard account. Are there simple alternatives such that the application can change the date and the time under a non-administrative account. It's a problem for me because Mac App Store, according to Apple, requires that the app can run under non-administrative accounts.
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