Support for sudo with tty-tickets enabled (MacOS Sierra by default)

[automation-stack]

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/tty_tickets-option-now-on-by-default-for-macos-sierras-sudo-tool/

[ZackMattor]

Hello! Just want to check if this is the issue i'm hitting. I have a simple app just trying to test out electron-sudo. Here is my code and the output. Running on MacOS Sierra.

var Sudoer = require('electron-sudo').default;
let options = {name: 'electron sudo application'};
var sudoer = new Sudoer(options);

sudoer.spawn('ls', ['/']).then(function (cp) {
  cp.stdout.on('data', (msg) => {
    console.log('Looks like we have a message on STDOUT');
    console.log(err.toString('utf8'));
  });

  cp.stderr.on('data',(err) => {
    console.log('Looks like we have a message on STDERR');
    console.log(err.toString('utf8'));
  });

  cp.on('close',() => {
    console.log('Processed Finished!');
  });
});

$ electron launcher.js
Looks like we have a message on STDERR
sudo: a password is required

Processed Finished!

[igor-lemon]

@automation-stack Hi Aleksandr. Do you have any ideas how to fix that?

[automation-stack]

@igor-lemon yes, it will be fixed soon, sudo will become not required for electron-sudo

[igor-lemon]

Cool. Thank you. I'm looking forward changes. :)

[justechn]

@automation-stack So is this completely broken on MacOS Sierra or can it still be used? Do you have an ETA on the fix?

[automation-stack]

@justechn working hard on this issues, details will follow

[treyreynolds]

Any chance this is fixed? I have been using sudo-prompt but it is actually quite poor in that it doesn't give you access to the underlying child process after it is created.

[rameerez]

Same issue here. macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

[DSBalaban]

Would also love to see this working again. If there's anything we can do to help, let us know!
I'd jump in to fix it, but I have little idea where to start.

[automation-stack]

@DSBalaban the idea is to refuse to use sudo in this package, I'm working on this

[eriklarko]

I ran into the same issue and made it work on Sierra at least by using osascript.

The change is hacky but might help someone running into this problem, mullvad@f71134f

[robsontenorio]

@eriklarko i think you should post a PR to @automation-stack :)

[imdreamrunner]

Personally I feel the osascript idea is a bit too hack-ish. Really looking forward to @automation-stack 's fix.

[pronebird]

@imdreamrunner yeah but how's that any different from using sudo and what difference does it make if electron-sudo is broken for over 6 months..

[wemteqdev]

Is electron-sudo still maintaining? any updates for this issue?