Re: [Vala] Process spawn not working when the Terminal is not opened

[Christian Capasso <capasso912 gmail com>]

If I need root's permissions, for example when it comes to the format, or
to the umount, what should I do? Should I use Process.spawn or not?


2013/5/3 Arnel A. Borja <kyoushuu yahoo com>

> Hello Christian,
>
>
> On Friday, 03 May, 2013 11:53 PM, Christian Capasso wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much for your answer!
> >
> > I have tried to use gksudo and it works without the Terminal window.
> > Anyway, I the problem is that gksudo, for some reason, does not accept any
> > parameter. For example, the "mkfs.vfat -n "Drive" -I /dev/sdf1" command
> > needs those arguments that can't be passed through gksudo.
> Just pass an array as arguments with "gksudo" as the first element,
> "mkfs.vfat" in the second, "-n" in the third, and so on.
> If it didn't work try passing "gksudo" as the first element, then the
> whole command as the second. I can't test it because I don't have gksudo in
> my system. Try running "man gksudo" in the terminal to view it's manual or
> "gksudo --help" to know how to use that gksudo.
>
>
>  Is there a way to solve this issue and send arguments to gksudo? Or,
> > alternatively, is there a way to get and keep root permissions with gksudo,
> > just like "sudo -s" does?
> Isn't gksudo used for graphical applications only? mkfs.vfat is a
> command-line application, so you could just use "sudo -S" or su. On the
> other hand, note that you shouldn't use sudo/su for graphical applications.
>
> Note that gksudo is not available on all Linux distros. For example I use
> openSUSE 12.3 and I don't have gksudo (it's not in the repositories either)
> but I have gnomesu to run graphical applications as root. And there's also
> gksu. And you couldn't ensure that su or sudo exists either (some distros
> always run in root, like Puppy Linux), so you might need to check which one
> exists on the system.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Arnel