Shell gurus, Is there any way to do the equivalent of su or sudo when using shell()? When shell() is called you are whoever you logged into OS X as. It'd be nifty if you could provide a way to authenticate as root from within mc, so that the user would not have to literally log into OS X as root.
I know that you can't log into OS X via the Chooser or ftp or telnet as root... You have to set up rsh or ssh to do it. Is the same type of restriction applicable to shell()? Of course this is not a show stopper by any means, but if there's a way to do this I'd be interested in hearing what it is. PS - By using do thisstring as applescript, where thisstring = do shell script ("whoami"), you can issue UNIX commands with MC 2.4.2... That was what I was doing before 2.4.3 happened. But handing things off to AppleScript is a hack, and it requires AppleScript 1.8 or 1.8.1. What's nice is that MC 2.4.3 can issue shell commands 2 to 4 times faster than doing it through AppleScript. VERY nice to be able to directly make the calls. :) -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard