Re: (no subject)

[Daniel Flemming <danflemming mac com>]

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On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Dirk van der Walt wrote:

> I've got this program that needs to run as root, but want
> to have a pop-up window that prompts for the root password
> and if correct, it should launch the program.

Hmm.

Do you mind using a shell script as a frontend for your program?

If not, you should be able to use GKsu, a GTK frontend to su. You can get it
from http://nongnu.org/gksu/

It's based on a custom library, libgksu. You can get that from the same
site, but I don't think there are any Perl bindings for it yet (but you
never know :)

But the shell script approach is pretty easy.

#!/bin/sh

gksu
exec yourprogram

GKsu takes some command-line options to let you do stuff like specify
messages to display in its window, but I forget what they are. (I used to
use a gksu-based shell script to shutdown my laptop, but I've since gone
over to just using sudo and Xdialog.)

The GKsu developer is a Debian guy, but I think the code's portable to
pretty much everything, at least in the PAM world.
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