Why is my hard drive requiring authentication before allowing me to drag documents to it?

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[SOLVED] Require authentication before my script executes

OK I got a little bash script where I type in how many minutes my computer will poweroff.
Normally, it can be ran with regular user even the code contains command "poweroff" which requires root privilegies so, when times up, instead of poweroff, I get message: "poweroff: must be superuser"
Now, I want it to be like, when I run it (./myscript) to require authentication before the script even start like, for example Gparted requires, so if an authentication passes, my scirpt can run and have permission to do whatever it's written in it (in this case, 'poweroff').
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Last edited by broi (2012-03-24 23:38:44)

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foppe wrote:
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Am I to understand that my iMac suddenly become case sensitive? Sorry if this was too much information about my hard-ware set-up.
Any help someone can provide me would be greatly appreciated. I suppose I need to understand Time Machine and perhaps my Thunderbolt better.

Hi BDAqua,
Bravo, you helped me solve my problem.
The Case Sensitive Disk was the small portable hard drive that I was using termporarily.
I just disconnected it and I started TM machine and everything seems to be working just fine.
Thank you very much!!!!

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Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          2
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