Is there anything work the same as gksu in ubuntu?
Resently, I am programming in bash for mac, but I do need something like gksu in ubuntu. Hopefully, it might provide a visual Authenticate dialog to the enduser, so that they can run some bash as root.
Thanks
Bummer, you missed the boat on this one
Do you want the bad news or the bad news?
Here is the bad news. The traditional way to do this was through the Authorization Services API. Unfortuantely, two of the basic routines in that API were deprecated in Lion. If you set your deployment to 10.6, you can use the old routines that are more or less straightforward.
Now the bad news. You can't do any privilege escapation with a sandboxed app in the App Store. Ideally, just don't do it. There are ways around these things in most cases. If you want Lion, Mountain Lion, or ??? support, you are going to have to use something newer. That something is part of the old Authorization Services API along with launchd and SMJobBless. I would love to direct you to additional information on the topic, even in the Developer forums, but there is none. Apple's instructions are to just take the Better Authorization example and swap in launch and SMJobBless. Simple for them.
Your only ray of light is AppleScript. If you really want to execute as root and have no other option, you can write an AppleScript that calls "do shell script" "with administrator privileges".
One more point, bash is GPLv3 so it will never be updated on MacOS X. I suggest switching to zsh. For scripting, always use sh.
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