AppleScript on root file

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hello,

I just try to write my first AppleScript that would aim to add lines at the very end of the hosts file.

set fileHosts to "/etc/hosts"
set hostToAdd to "#mes hosts à rajouter"

open for access fileHosts with write permission
write hostToAdd to fileHosts
write hostToAdd to fileHosts starting at eof
close access fileHosts

When I do a test file of my account, no problem, but when I do it on the real hosts file (in root account), I get the following error: “Error network file permission.”. The “network” seems to me strange, but speculates that it is a permission problem.

Are there means he asks the administrator password in order to save this file? And if possible, how to do it?

Thank you in advance.

#2

Does this work?

do shell script "echo '#mes hosts à rajouter' >>~/../../private/etc/hosts" with administrator privileges

You will be asked for the administrators password!

#3 
set hostToAdd to "echo '

#my hosts

' >>"
set fileHosts to "/etc/hosts"

do shell script hostToAdd & fileHosts with administrator privileges

Well, require using the shell script, after all, it’s even less typing.

Thank you!