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: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:01:05 -0500
The line in my script is:
hdiutil create -ov -srcfolder <source> -volname <volumename>
<imagename>
On Nov 13, 2003, at 13:52, Izidor Jerebic wrote:
>
> 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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>>
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>> Clark S. Cox III
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>
>
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