do shell script problem

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#1

hello,
i’m just trying to do a schel script with administrator privileges, but even when i type one character as password i get a good respons. Only when i use a blank password i get no respons.

here’s the code i’m trying
/***************************
try
set MyCommand to “ls -al /private/var/root/”
set MyResult to do shell script MyCommand with administrator privileges
display dialog (MyResult as text)
end try
***************************/
any idee why this doesn’t work???

#2

Sorry,
seems like in the terminal it self the commando’s work for about 5min as administrator so ones the correct password is entered it keeps workingjavascript:emoticon(‘:twisted:’)

#3

The command you are using does not require a password to run so anything you type into the passwoard dialog window will appear to still be working except once the sudoers time stamp of 5 minutes expires you won’t see a result when typing in the wrong password. You can reset the the sudo time stamp to zero with “sudo -k”.

try
	do shell script "sudo -k" --reset time stamp
	set MyCommand to "ls -al /private/var/root/"
	set MyResult to do shell script MyCommand with administrator privileges
	display dialog (MyResult as text)
end try

Each time you run the above script, it will ask you for a password, an incorrect password will result in an error dialog.
hth

#4

Trap the error of a bad password with the one error statement


try
	do shell script "sudo -k" --reset time stamp 
	set MyCommand to "ls -al /private/var/root/"
	set MyResult to do shell script MyCommand with administrator privileges
	display dialog (MyResult as text)
on error
	display dialog "bad password"
end try