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Create a GUI Finder with root access
Following on the heels of the atonaldenim, I wanted a way to be sure I didn't forget to disable the root finder when I was done with it.
I also noticed that if I ran the command more than once, Activity Monitor would show more than one instance of a Finder owned by root, so I wanted to make sure I could kill every instance of the root Finder when I was finished.
So I made a newbie-level applescript with a little bit of pre-newbie-level shell commands inside. This applescript starts a root enabled Finder, asks for your password, and leaves a dialog box open that asks you if you want to quit root Finder. When you press "Quit", it kills every instance of root Finder but leaves your user Finder untouched.
The script can be saved as an app from script editor, or in my case I run it as a script from Launchbar.
I don't know much about the security of passing my admin password through applescript, but I assume since the system itself and not the applescript calls for your password, my thought was that there's not a security issue there...
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