[Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript/administrator privileges (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sat Nov 27 12:47:07 CET 2004

On Nov 27, 2004, at 6:17 AM, has wrote:

Bob Ippolito wrote:

Does appscript support anything analogous to AppleScript's ability to execute a command with administrator privileges (hooks into Authorization Services)?

Can you give an example? (from one of Kevin's posts on the darwinports list) -- set theLauncher to "sudo -b /Applications/DarwinPorts/TkDarwinPorts.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish\ Shell" do shell script theLauncher with administrator privileges Ah, right. The Python equivalent to 'do shell script' is os.system() so it's not an appscript issue. One for Python's Unix experts, I think. [1] [1] Though if you had to, you could call the 'do shell script' osax from MacPython using the osax module <http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/osax-0.1.0.tar.gz>. , The typical unix way would be via Authorization Services, which can be done with the Authorization extension that I wrote, as he mentioned.
His question was specifically if he could use the same facility that AppleScript uses for this via appscript, which you answered in the footnote. FWIW, "do shell script" is a lot more like os.popen[1].

[1] Not that you should ever use popen, because the subprocess <http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-subprocess.html> module is a much better way of handling said situations. It's sad that "do shell script" won't take a list of arguments.

-bob

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