Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > 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. I didn't say anything about /etc/sudoers, did I? :) >> 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. Hm, weird. It works for me. I had thought /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 made this hook into ordinary console logins, too. Perhaps you have it disabled in "dpkg-reconfigure libpam-runtime". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
