If you add a line do shell script "" with administrator privileges you'll get the desired action. This only asks for the password, but if you want to actually invoke administrator privileges inside a shell script, you would write do shell script "sudo foo" with administrator privileges ---------------------------------- At 10:00 PM -0400 7/28/09, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > >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?