Clamshell without user password

[rabbly]

Challenge Currently the Clamshell Evolution script requires you to enter your password every time. My password requirements are extremely long so this is a challenge.

Feature request Remove the password requirements

Workaround I have found a workaround by editing the sudoers file for the pmset command. That is not very user friendly though. For this workaround I did the following;

1. Follow the instructions here to add pmset to the sudoers file your_short_username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pmset
2. Edit the Clamsell Evolution script to remove the "as administrator" setting do shell script "sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1"

Other solutions OneSwitch has a solution for this and seems to be able to handle it

[jacklandrin]

You also can edit Clamshell commands to add your password like:

do shell script "sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1" with prompt "OnlySwitch" with administrator privileges password "xxxxx"

It wouldn't ask for the password every time.

[rabbly]

The most concerning thing about that is having my password randomly stored in plain text somewhere, but good to be aware of as an option.

[jacklandrin]

An alternative way is like OneSwitch, which lets users install a help tool to store account passwords to keychain. It would be safer than in plain.

[rabbly]

Is that something I can do, or requires a change to OnlySwitch?

[jacklandrin]

I will investigate how to implement it and add it on my side.