Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
- Subject: Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
- From: Karl Kuehn <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:42:06 -0700
On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:
I’ve got a preflight script that executes AppleScript via
osascript. This works in Mac OS X v10.4, but not in 10.5.4
I don't have an answer for you, but as a System Admin I am going to
caution you to not use AppleScript in an installer that you are going
to put out into the public. And as you are emailing from an Adobe.com
address I am going make this warning even more stern (as your company
has put out a lot of really bad installers and is loathed in the
SysAdmin community for it):
You can not tell how your installer is going to be run by your
clients, and there are a lot of places where using an AppleScript in
an installer will have inappropriate side-effects. Most notably is
that System Admins was to be able to push .pkg's through tools such as
Apple Remote Desktop which means that the installer can be run in the
background, with root permissions, behind the login-window. If in this
case you call anything to Finder it will try and launch in the context
of root, at the login-window. Meaning that anyone who wanders by now
has a Finder window with root permissions ready to wreck havoc on the
system.
So, there is probably a far better way of achieving the end goal that
you are trying for... or you need to really examine your end-goal. If
you want, this list can help you with either of these two goals.
--
Karl Kuehn
email@hidden
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