• Apple OS X

  My ‘run with administrative privileges’ applescript no longer works

  Posted by Jeff Murchison on November 8, 2010 at 6:10 pm

  Hey all. I have an applescript that I made a while back that shuts down the computer. I pulled it out today to use it and it no longer works. Here’s part of the code I’m having trouble with:

  do shell script ¬
  “sudo shutdown -h now” password “myadminpassword” with administrator privileges

  On old machines this worked great, I would just put the admin password where myadminpassword is and it would work perfectly. Now though, I run it on my machine and I get the prompt to enter my admin username and password before it will shutdown.

  Now this is going on a remote install so I need it to work. Any ideas? The machine is running snow leopard, but it seems to still work on an old leopard macbook pro.

  Jeff Murchison replied 15 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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