Graphical sudo for terminal

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  1. Lumio, Dec 27, 2011

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    Hello, I want to create a bash-script but need to authorize the action I want to do. Is there something like gksudo for mac os x?

    Thanks :)
     
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  2. Sayer, Jan 5, 2012

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    Yes, its called sudo.
     
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  3. balamw, Jan 5, 2012

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  4. KnightWRX, Jan 5, 2012

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  5. Hansr, Jan 5, 2012

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    I don't see why this is needed, just lunch the binary with sudo.

    E.g.
    sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
     
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  6. KnightWRX, Jan 5, 2012

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    I get why he does. He wants the script to launch from Finder and not pop-up Terminal to a user.

    A graphical sudo does a good job of this. This is exactly why Gnome/KDE both have graphical versions of sudo, so the user never sees the "cli" and doesn't have to type anything.
     
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  7. balamw, Jan 5, 2012

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  8. Lumio, Jan 6, 2012

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    Hello and thanks for your replies... yes I googled and yes I already found cocoasudo :) thanks by that... but the problem with cocoasudo is, that I need to compile it by myself... I need something, what is buildt-in.

    Thanks for everyones reply.
     
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  9. balamw, Jan 6, 2012

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    The AppleScript approach seems to (mostly) fit that bill.

    FWIW it would be helpful to tell us you had seen it and why it wouldn't work up front.

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