Is there any graphical "sudo" for Mac OS X?

gksudo, macos, privileges, shell, sudo

Solution

You can more ore less manage to write your own with an AppleScript shell script:

#!/bin/sh
osascript -e "do shell script \"$*\" with administrator privileges"

`cocoasudo` looks aesthetically more pleasing, but this is already deployed.

Problem

I'm designing a little software in Java. I don't know the term/definition to what I'm doing, but I'm prompting commands from Java to the terminal. Something like this: ``` Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("command"); ``` I've done this before in Linux, and I used `gksudo` for commands that required the root password. Is there any `gksudo` in OS X? Any graphical popup asking for root password?

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