Starting process from Adobe AIR requires credentials?

Asked Apr 28 '19 at 22:45

Active Apr 30 '19 at 03:38

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I'm trying to write a script to start apache:

var result = app.doShellScript('apachectl start');

and standard out says:

This operation requires root.

So I change it to:

var result = app.doShellScript('sudo apachectl start');

And then the response is:

no tty present and no askpass program specified

In a few other AIR apps AIR would open up a window. Is there some way to prompt this directly?

edited Apr 30 '19 at 03:38

VC.One

asked Apr 28 '19 at 22:45

1.21 gigawatts

Maybe **gksudo** instead of **sudo**? – Organis Apr 28 '19 at 22:53
@Organis The response I get is `sh: gksudo: command not found` – 1.21 gigawatts Apr 28 '19 at 23:18
I don't know what distro you are on, I'm on Ubuntu and **gksudo** here is GUI alternative of **sudo**, it provides a standard system GTK auth window to auth the next command. – Organis Apr 29 '19 at 07:33
I might not see it because I'm on OSX – 1.21 gigawatts Apr 29 '19 at 07:42
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1517183/is-there-any-graphical-sudo-for-mac-os-x – Organis Apr 29 '19 at 09:31

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