On 7 December 2011 20:51, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote: > Check if the user is in the "sudo" group. Not 100% reliable, but > it might do.
Neither is /etc/sudoers readable or easily parsed. Otherwise such a check could be used to change the default method from `su' to `sudo'. > Even better would be to use pkexec from the policykit-1 package. pkexec appears to only work under X. When run from a console: io:~$ pkexec aptitude Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent was found. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
