Comments on: cocoasudo: A graphical Cocoa based alternative to sudo

By: Jon Hermansen

Jon Hermansen — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:36:41 +0000

I came here to tell you that this was an awesome tool, but I had a feature request (until I figured it out on my own). I was hoping this tool could provide a “-u” option much like sudo does, but after looking at the Apple docs, it looks like they only allow privilege escalation via this API.

Anyways, you can have cocoasudo call ’sudo -u user command’ and it will DROP root privileges and run as a different user than your current login, which is exactly what I needed.

Thought I might share, thanks for the awesome software!

By: mystro

mystro — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:55:23 +0000

I love your tool! It’s fantastic and is great exactly formy situation (Java app ported to mac). I’m wondering if you could also write a quick tool that lets you add items to the com.apple.loginitems.plist file? I think it’s accessible using Apple’s LSSharedFileListItemRef, but I’m not an OSX developer :S

By: Mital Vora

Mital Vora — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:30:38 +0000

Amazing code that works brilliantly on osx 1.6. good work buddy !!

By: HaDAk

HaDAk — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:41:16 +0000

For some reason, it won’t let me specify my own icon. It overlays the standard lock icon with an exec icon. OS X 10.6.3

By: Toby S

Toby S — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:02:37 +0000

That’s great. Works like a charm!

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:07:34 +0000

A few updates were just pushed to git:

- stdout works now
- path is now searched for executable
- OS X 10.4 support
- improved error handling & messages

By: Toby S

Toby S — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:21:24 +0000

Another problem. My script is unable to catch the output of a command that is run with cocoasudo. Seems that cocoasudo is catching all the stdout from the run command and it is never getting to stdout.

By: Toby S

Toby S — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:27:50 +0000

Yup, that did the trick. Both commands work. Thanks again for this nice little app.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:39:05 +0000

Glad this can hopefully meet a need.

Could you give these alternates a try? It could be that the path of what you are running is required. If this works, I’ll work on updating the utility to search the path as well.

Alternate #1:

./cocoasudo `which installer` -pkg /Users/distrotubux/Desktop/Setup.mpkg -target / -verbose

Alternate #2:

./cocoasudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /Users/distrotubux/Desktop/Setup.mpkg -target / -verbose

By: Toby S

Toby S — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:10:46 +0000

Dude, I’ve been looking for a program just like this for the past week. I searched today and bam, here it is. Just like gksudo on Linux. Just one problem. I am having issues getting the command and arguments to run. Not sure if this is because it is not recieving the correct authentication or if it is just a syntax error on my part.

ex.

./cocoasudo installer -pkg /Users/distrotubux/Desktop/Setup.mpkg -target / -verbose

I get the prompt for pw but the installer does not run. I’ve tested this command using sudo and it works just fine. Ideas?