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Subject:
Admin privs for file copy script?
From:
Walter Ian Kaye <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:00:38 -0700
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I notice that installers have a way to pop up an authorization dialog 
for writing to areas of the filesystem outside the user's home folder.

Is there any way to do that from AppleScript, or are our digital hands tied?

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