Re: hdiutil -create needs sudo for creating disk images?
Re: hdiutil -create needs sudo for creating disk images?
- Subject: Re: hdiutil -create needs sudo for creating disk images?
- From: Izidor Jerebic <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:52:04 +0100
Well, this is the trace of Terminal session:
% hdiutil create -srcfolder /tmp/dPage.dst dPage.dmg
Initializing...
Creating...
Finishing...
hdiutil: create failed - Operation not permitted
But the same image (exactly the same source and destination folders,
same current directory) gets created by a longwinded script executed
within Xcode which manually creates DMG, mounts, unmounts, copies
files, recompresses, etc...
So yes, I have permissions to read from the source folder and
permissions to write in the destination folder (and I have been doing
this for couple years with PB, so it should work :-).
What exact command parameters are you using?
izidor
On Nov 13, 2003, at 7:23 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
I can attest that it does not require root access, as I us it in
several build scripts of mine. Are you sure that you have permissions
to read xx and to write xxx.dmg?
On Nov 13, 2003, at 11:17, Izidor Jerebic wrote:
Hello!
I am not sure where this topic belongs, but many developers are using
hdiutil to create disk images of their applications. And one very
early script for doing so in PB was presented by one of Apple
developers, so here I go...
Previously I was making the release images the long way (as described
in man hdiutil), and now I was pleased that I could do it all with a
single command line. But this command (hdiutil -create -srcfolder xxx
xxx.dmg) seems to requires root privileges. It cannot be run as a
normal user in Xcode custom build command, but can be run as 'sudo
hdiutil ...' on a command line in Terminal, naturally requiring
password entry. Now why would such a command require root privileges
is beyond me. Am I making some mistakes or is this really impossible
to do in a script?
izidor
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