Re: Re[2]: Bootstrap then launch with administrative rights

> Hello Julien,
>
> Monday, December 8, 2008, 8:53:51 AM, you wrote:
>
>>> This is very nice   However there is again a limitation: It seems
>>> like your tiny app does not work correctly with shell scripts. So
>>> any shell scripts do not inherit the privileges. This explcitly
>>> covers the case where you tell the installer to start shell script
>>> as postinstall (<executable>). This script will not run with the
>>> elevated rights. Would there be any way how to make scripts run
>>> with elevated rights as well?
>
>> See the attached screenshot: I have inserted a call to whoami in
>> ProcessPanel and the scripts are called as root.
>
> I have tried it again by calling a simple testscript and executing it
> by using run-with-privileges-on-osx but it does not work!
>
> I tried:
>
> ===== console output =====
>
> ./run-with-privileges ./test.sh bla
>
> cat ./test.sh
>
> #!/bin/bash
> whoami > /tmp/me
>
> cat /tmp/me
>
> nik
> ===== console output =====
>
> As you can see it does not tell that I am root. Also a
>
> ./run-with-privileges /bin/bash ./test.sh
>
> gives the same result. Maybe it has something to do with sub processes
> not inheriting the user id. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  nik.thirtynine                            mailto:nik.thirtynine
>
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