macOS AppleScript Terminal Commands

michaelzz · Jul 4, 2008

Hi,
I have 2 commands in terminal i use often and I would like to automate them with an applescript (or shell script, or a script of some sort). I tried apple script and put this in

Code:

do shell script "sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KByte/s"
do shell script "sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80"

then i try to run it in the editor and it says "error: Password: ". so i was wondering if there was someway to add a password into the script (i don't care too much about security), or find a way around this. I would rather not type my password every time i try to run the script, but it would be fine if I had to.
Thanks in advance!

HiRez · Jul 5, 2008

Use the with administrator privileges, user name, and password keywords, and don't use sudo:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html

michaelzz · Jul 5, 2008

i got an error after i did that

Code:

ipfw: socket: operation not permitted

HiRez · Jul 6, 2008

Well I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that error, but using those keywords is the normal way to do such things from AppleScript. Maybe certain commands have issues with it. Can you try running the script from the root account and see if it still gives you the error?

HeyPretty · Jun 27, 2011

No need for an AppleScript here. Just add an alias in your .profile:

http://ss64.com/bash/alias.html

alias config='sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KByte/s'
alias add='sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80'

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