• 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, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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