2718.us blog » osascript http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 A New Trick for When the OS X Screensaver Password Window Hangs http://2718.us/blog/2009/05/19/a-new-trick-for-when-the-os-x-screensaver-password-window-hangs/ http://2718.us/blog/2009/05/19/a-new-trick-for-when-the-os-x-screensaver-password-window-hangs/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 03:38:35 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=148 I have multiple computers, so I can easily ssh into my desktop when the screensaver password is hanging and won’t let me log in.

The not-so-new trick has been to use AppleScript on the command line to not-so-harshly close some applications (run osascript, then tell application "program name" to quit, followed by ctrl-D (EOF).

The new trick is to sudo kill SecurityAgent, sudo run SecurityAgent, put the machine to sleep, then wake it back up (necessary to get SecurityAgent to put up a new password window).

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