Re: [sabayon] Trying to perform privileged operations from the sessionswindow

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

On 6/27/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu randomink org> wrote:
> 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 ?

Replying to myself here....
After some preliminary discussions on IRC with Federico, it seems that
as far as Sabayon created profiles are considered, it would be best to
keep a consistent naming system for the global desktop link directory
eg: $(sysconfdir)/desktop-profiles/desktop-items/{profile-name}
This would also take care of distributing these links if the requirement arises.

So, the current idea is to:

1. Have a Edit->Desktop Links menu item in the Sabayon profile editor
window which would fire up the desktop links editing tool (the
directory will be predefined as
$(sysconfdir)/desktop-profiles/desktop-items/{profile-name} as soon as
the user clicks on the menu item.

2. The link editing tool would have a check box to enable/disable the
global (mandatory) desktop links.

Does this sound like a sensible plan ?

Warm regards,
Sayamindu


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