[sabayon] Trying to perform privileged operations from the sessionswindow

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

Hi all,

I have added an extra option, Edit->Desktop Links to the profile
editor window, which allows the administrator to configure desktop
links (both mandatory and non mandatory) for a particular profile.
However, the problem is that I am not being able to write to the
global desktop link directory since the process running the profile
editor window does not have root privileges.
I tried the seteuid() method for doing the write operations, but it
did not work and directed me to http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
Is there any way to do privileged operations from the editor window ?
One ugly workaround would be to save the global links in some
temporary directory and when the save button is pressed (__do_save()
in sessionwindow.py), copy the links in the actual directory.
Is there any better way ?

Cheers,
Sayamindu


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