Re: [gtkmm] Linux User Authentication

[Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools org>]

Just check the user id.
Only root is 0 (zero)

Check getuid() and geteuid()
function calls.

Right now I'm not sure how
to change the UID on the
fly for non-root processes.

Cheers,
Paulo

gamehack wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I don't know if  here is the right place to ask for this, but I'm
> doing gtkmm application and want to know if there are some docs and
> tutorials about linux user authentication i.e. how to see if the user
> who started my application is root and if he isn't, how to ask him for
> password and so on.
>
> Thanks in advance
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