JXA Equivalent of With Administrator Privileges

Question

In AppleScript, you can do:

do shell script "echo 'I am (G)root'" with administrator privileges

Sorry. Anyway, a shell script can be run in JXA like this:

var app = Application.currentApplication();
app.includeStandardAdditions = true;
app.doShellScript("echo I am not root :(");

However, there doesn't seem to be an equivalent of with administrator privileges in JXA. Is there one that I'm missing, or how else should I do it? And don't tell me to use sudo. It won't work.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '16 at 15:01

Put option in {} --> app.doShellScript("ls -l", {administratorPrivileges:true});

Example with multiple options : app.doShellScript("ls -l", {userName:'MyUserName', password:'0123456', administratorPrivileges:true, alteringLineEndings:false});

Look at the StandardAdditions dictionary, select "JavaScript" in the popup instead of "AppleScript" (the default).

JXA Equivalent of With Administrator Privileges

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