Re: Getting root privilege

[JParker coinstar com]

G'Day !

Good article that gives you a general idea of how to change user priviledges.  It's a securrity article, so oit explains potenial exploits also  :-)

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2001/article182.shtml

cheers,
Jim Parker

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Stephane Duguay <sduguay Matrox COM> Sent by: gtk-app-devel-list-admin gnome org 02/14/01 09:38 AM

To:        gtk-app-devel-list gnome org         cc:                 Subject:        Getting root privilege

Hi,

This question is un-related to GTK+.  I just think you guys are
good *nix coder to help me.  Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this
question :-)

My application needs super-user (root) privileges to run properly...
BUT, i don't want the user to log as root or run "su root" each time he
wants to run the application... I want the application only to get the
privilege.  I was thinking about popping a dialog box asking for root
password...

Any help/comments/source will be greatly appreciated,
Thank you,
Stephane.


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