enter log and password for Terminal in a script

[pascaljean]

Hi
i have to perform few command in Terminal. (in admin or standard user)

i have to:
1-open Terminal
2-log in root (or admin identitie)
3-send the password
4-perform command lines

My big problem is … i don’t know how to give my Password when i ask to log in root mode in the Terminal.

Thanks

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

tell application “Terminal”
do script “sudo -k” in window 1
do script “login root” in window 1
– i have t give my password
do script “my first command line” in window 1
do script “my second command line” in window 1
do script “my third command line” in window 1
– i have to logout
end tell
quit application “Terminal”
tell application “Finder”
activate
restart
end tell

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[pascaljean]

Hi
this is my progress…

now i am able to log in Root and give the Root’s password to the terminal.
But after, my (4) command “do script” appear in other window (not in the root log window).

My command lines do insert in the SAME window of root’log.

thank for your help

Open the AppleScript “Untitled” in a new Script Editor window.

[pascaljean]

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

tell application “Terminal”
activate
do script “login root” in window 1
delay 1
tell application “System Events”
tell process “Terminal”
keystroke myRootPassword
keystroke return
delay 1
–process (4)
tell application “Terminal”
tell window 1
do script “sudo rm -f /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS.System*.fcache;sudo rm -f /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer.FODB_System;sudo rm -f /System/Library/Caches/fontTablesAnnex;sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/;exit”
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell

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[Camelot]

Do you need to use Terminal.app at all? can’t the commands just be run in a shell without terminal.app?

If so, just use the system-level ‘do shell script’ and do away with terminal.app altogether:

do shell script "blah; blah2; blah3" with administrator privileges password "blahblah"

If you omit the ‘password “blahblah”’ part the system will prompt you for your password to authenticate before performing the commands.

[pascaljean]

Hi Camelot
thank for your help.

Yes i think i need to use the Terminal because we need (at work) to perform this script on all Standard Accounts on the Mac (without permissions to Read-Write on these files). (we have few Mac with one Admin Account and many Standard Accout to many employees)

With “Do Shell script” we need to be in Administrator Account (or root) to run these commands. The only way i see to run commands with Standard Account (Standard User), it’s with Terminal.app., login root user (in Terminal), enter root password and perform commands.

I f you see my precedent message with my code), i am able to log in root in Terminal.app, enter my root’s password (i don’t know if it’s the best way… keystroke blahblah), but when i write again “do script”, Terminal.app open an other window… not log in root… whitout privileges…

Please !!! help !!!

Thanks