> > Background: I'm running a shell command in sh via Applescript in Apple's OS X
> > to restart the computer (from OS X to OS 9), but I have to use the sudo
> > command. (We have a lab full of Macs that constantly go back and forth
> > between the OS's)
> >
> > About the sudo command: when you run a shell script in this basic form: sudo
> > <command>, you get a prompt back asking for the password. How do I make the
> > script know that the prompt has appeared, and then fill in the password?
> >
>
> IIRC, in your sudoers file add the following (root@host$ visudo):
>
> <User or User_Alias> <user_to_run_as> = NOPASSWD: <command or
> command_alias>
My line from /etc/sudoers on my home machine looks like:
levi ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL
Additionally, if you have lots of issues like this, where your script needs to respond with prompted information, you might want to take a look at the scripting language expect. It's an extension of tcl, and it's specifically designed to interact on stdin/stdout with applications. For example, I wrote a simple IRC bot in about 20 lines.
Levi
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