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dezzeus

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Dec 9, 2012
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I was looking for running a shell command as root without asking the password to the user (except the first time), so I've decided to go through the Security Framework making a keychain to store and retrieve it in security but, as long as the Terminal prints the correct password:
Code:
password: "the_password"
doing the same from within Applescript, it returns me an empty string! :confused:
The code who give me that problem is:
Code:
set rootPassword to word 2 of (do shell script "security find-generic-password -gs \"my_service\" | tail -n 0")

Obviously, the keychain is made in order to allow the security command to access everything without asking for a password. :rolleyes:

P.S.: I've tried to remove both the tail part and the word 2 of one in the Applescript code and it prints every line except the one that I need. :(
 
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I've resolved using
Code:
set rootPassword to word 2 of (do shell script "security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -gs \"my_service\"")
 
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