Re: [gtkmm] Linux User Authentication

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools org> writes:

> 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.

Perhaps 'gksu' or whatever it is called these days. It will prompt the
user for the password with a nice dialog box.

Take a look at gnome-system-tools. They've solved this problem somehow.

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Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/