AppleScript Error - No user interaction allowed

It's because Casper runs as root & not the logged in user.

Try wrapping it in a tell block..

Like "tell Finder..... end tell"

Also, I've had luck when using AppleScript from Bash scripts... Like: http://macmule.com/2013/07/13/change-screenshot-location-from-self-service-with-gui-prompt/#more-595

hi, thanks for the reply,

i already put "end tell" , same error..

I had a similar problem having to run a script to prompt to change AD passwords so what I did was store the script on every system within a directory that you know exists on all macs. I used the /Users/Shared directory and then I used this script to call it to run and to make it run as the user logged in and not root:

#!/bin/bash

user=/usr/bin/last -1 -t console | awk '{print $1}'
su -l $user -c "open /Users/Shared/filenamecontainingscript"

I also used an applescript as the stored script in the /Users/Shared folder. Hope this helps.

Hi aurica,

I try the script, work fine. But when upload it and run using Casper, this error:

Executing Policy Never Shutdown 7days...
Mounting my-jss01 to /Volumes/CasperShare...
Running script SystemEvent.sh...
Script exit code: 0
Script result: 449:453: syntax error: Expected end of line but found application constant or consideration. (-2741)

I had success with my sample. I uploaded it into my 8.62 environment as pairjal_test.sh and set up a manually triggered policy.

Log from user cancelation, which registers as a policy failure:

/usr/sbin/jamf is version 8.62
Executing Policy pairjal test...
Creating directory structure for /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/
Downloading http://FQDN:80/ShareName/Scripts/pairjal_test.sh...
Running script pairjal_test.sh...
Script exit code: 0
Script result: 58:329: execution error: System Events got an error: User canceled. (-128)

Log from successful restart and shutdown:

/usr/sbin/jamf is version 8.62
Executing Policy pairjal test...
Creating directory structure for /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/
Downloading http://FQDN:80/ShareName/Scripts/pairjal_test.sh...
Running script pairjal_test.sh...
Script exit code: 0
Script result:

The syntax error in your last post makes me suspect that you might have dropped a ( in the copy/paste?

Hey Everyone,

I had this problem moving forward with 10.7 and 10.8. Where the Applescript, when ran as root, did not like not having a user environment. To get around this, I would save my scripts as apps in Applescript then use the `sudo -u` command to run as root as the current user.

So, I would toss my Applescript app in the Scripts folder on my CasperShare, then have another script call it like this:

#!/bin/bash

# execute applescript as end user
currentUser=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{ print $3 }')

sudo -u ${currentUser} open /Volumes/CasperShare/Scripts/myapplescript.app

exit 0

The CasperShare will always mount to /Volumes, and I just had scripts call the app from there with the open command.

I hope this may help you out.

Tom

+1

Hi Aurica

thanks for the script. i have modified and working fine now.

For me, "tell application "System Events"" does not work, however tell application "Finder" does.

Issue seems to be resolved with 9.24

So, you can now launch that applescript from a bash script? Im trying to make this happen and its just not going.

I would love to use a script like this. However, I can't figure out how to set the threshold for when to trigger it to happen. I'd like for our computers to be rebooted if their uptime is greater than 20 days. And if a user clicks cancel, how much time can elapse before it is triggered again?