Deleting locked files

[cirno]

I have files i normally delete manually and Mac asks “Type your password to allow Finder to make changes”.

Is there any way to use AppleScript/CLI to trash/delete files which are owned by System and without user interactions. Thanks

[McUsrII]

Hello.

That would depend upon if you have administrative rights on your account or not.

if you have, then you can delete them with a do shell script, which you also can do with a do shell script with administrator privileges, but this is going to be as annoying if you haven’t fixed the sudoers file, to make the password to work for a while.

You’ll find some hacks around to make Finder operate with administrative rights, like dropping a copy onto the free app Pseudo and the like.

You should really be careful with files that are owned by System!

[cirno]

@McUsrII

Hello.

That would depend upon if you have administrative rights on your account or not.

if you have, then you can delete them with a do shell script, which you also can do with a do shell script with administrator privileges, but this is going to be as annoying if you haven’t fixed the sudoers file, to make the password to work for a while.

You’ll find some hacks around to make Finder operate with administrative rights, like dropping a copy onto the free app Pseudo and the like.

You should really be careful with files that are owned by System!

Thanks.

It is admin rights account.

How i do it using do shell script and how i can fix sudoers file?

[McUsrII]

The easiest is to do it from the commandline if you have an administrator account.

sudo rm -f your files in a list

should do. if you have the files in a filelist, then you can do something like

sudo (cat listwithFilesToDelete |xargs rm)

I’d stay away from the sudoers file if I were you, but if you have to, google for sudoers, and grace period. it is not pleasant to make it work, really not pleasant.