Old Topic, Same Question: sudo in Tiger

I’d like to do this:

do shell script "sudo pmset dim 1 spindown 1" user name "my_short_name" password "my_admin_PW"

Result? It complains about my password (worked perfectly in Panther with the admin priv. addon, doesn’t work in Tiger)

Leaving out the sudo gets a message saying pmset will only run in root.

What gives?

do shell script "pmset dim 1 spindown 1" user name "my_short_name" password "my_admin_PW" with administrator privileges

Should work.

And it does too, but I thought in Tiger the “with administrator privileges” was redundant.

:stuck_out_tongue: Would’ve been better to have it anyway for backwards compatibility.