Roger Eller wrote:
>
> How about this method?
>
> shell("pw=" & tPassword & "; echo $pw | sudo -S command")
>
> SOURCE:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@.runrev/msg137100.html
>
> ~Roger
>
Yes very neat, thanks. My problem was a bit different but maybe this can be
used. The rea
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
> Roger,
>
> Good finding.
>
> Cheers
> andre
>
>
I keep the classic Revolution archive, as well as the new LiveCode archive
links handy for searching. There's lots of good stuff in both. It's too
bad the Developer List is private, and therefo
Roger,
Good finding. I gave the same comment as before lol... it appears that this
solution works, I haven't tested it.
Cheers
andre
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, you can't ask for the user pas
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
> As far as I know, you can't ask for the user password and pass it to a
> shell call with clever use of pipes. That is not how sudo works, you can't:
>
> cat password.txt | sudo cd .. or sudo cd .. < password.txt
>
>
How about this method
Guys,
As far as I know, you can't ask for the user password and pass it to a
shell call with clever use of pipes. That is not how sudo works, you can't:
cat password.txt | sudo cd ..
or
sudo cd .. < password.txt
The only way I found to script sudo calls is by using expect (
http://www.nist.
set the hideconsolewindows to true
will do what you wish.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Brozycki wrote:
> Regarding shell commands and LiveCode
>
> I've noticed that under OS X, invocation of a shell command is silent.
> But under Windows, you see a CMD window quickly pop up and dis
John,
set the hideConsoleWindows to true
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Regarding shell commands and LiveCode
I've noticed that under OS X, invocation of a shell command is silent. But
under Windows, you see a CMD window quickly pop up and disappear. I haven't
found any options to prevent the shell command popping up under Windows, but
wondered if anyone knew
Mike-
Monday, November 14, 2011, 2:06:34 PM, you wrote:
> Hmm, would calling login directly work? Probably not, as on many systems
> root login is not allowed. If it were allowed, then the same basic idea
> works. open process login then do the magic stuff, then exit out.
It's not allowed, or
oh that sucks. I tried quite a few other methods none of which worked very
well if at all.
Hmm, would calling login directly work? Probably not, as on many systems
root login is not allowed. If it were allowed, then the same basic idea
works. open process login then do the magic stuff, then exit
Mike-
Monday, November 14, 2011, 12:16:39 PM, you wrote:
> open elevated process seems to work ok. The following handler, opens bash
> as an elevated process, then writes to it and reads from it. Should be
> possible to run a pre-made shell script too.
That's a nice script. Unfortunately openin
open elevated process seems to work ok. The following handler, opens bash
as an elevated process, then writes to it and reads from it. Should be
possible to run a pre-made shell script too.
Yep, just tried it works fine. Notice the "whoami" command that is written,
it confirms that using open ele
On 11/14/11 11:03 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
My second problem with
livecode was how to call the shell in such a way as to have the user enter
the password and then carry on with the script.
I probably shouldn't post about something I know so little about, but...
If you know you will need a p
Don't forget you can open a script as a process for update and then send
whatever you need to it directly from livecode. I also seem to recall that
its possible to open a process with elevated privileges but I can't find
the info on that for some reason. If you can figure out that portion it
could
Thanks guys. Yes, I know about sudo. The idea was to get the user to put in
the root password on each occasion, not to store it someplace which you're
quite right of course would be very unwise.
I think maybe livecode is not what I should be using for this, the right way
is probably to have a sh
if I recall correctly, you can grab a password from a file (as bd stated,
this is dangerous)
sudo su < filewithpword.txt; command 1; command 2; etc 3
scary thing to do though.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
> It may be that the easiest way around that is to edit /etc/su
It may be that the easiest way around that is to edit /etc/sudoers and
configure some username, such that said the logged-in user does not
need to enter a password in order to call 'sudo su - auser'. If you
look inside /etc/sudoers it should explain what is required to make
access to sudo password
you can use a semicolon as command delimiter.
So you could do shell("command 1; command 2; command 3") and it would do
them in succession.
However rather than su to root its a much better idea to use sudo.
Beyond that, it might be easier to use open process so that you can open a
persistant conne
Bernard, many thanks, yes, that works. Can I ask one more question, how then
would you get the shell to interact, like if you do su and want to get the
password in, and then run a script that requires root password? Or maybe
all that has to be done in shell?
Peter
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put shell("cd ..; pwd") would appear to do what you want.
There is going to be no state maintained between different calls of
shell(). Thus, changing to a directory in one calls is not (IMO)
going to be maintained on a subsequent call of shel|(). Concatenating
commands (as I did above using the
I'm having trouble with the livecode shell and cd command also.
pwd in a terminal does:
:~/ runrev 4.5/livecode-4.5.2$
cd ..
:~/ runrev 4.5$
pwd
runrev 4.5$
If you do the exact same things using put shell(""), this doesn't work.
In particular,
put shell("pwd")
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