Hi, On Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:05:25 +0000 "J.Arun Mani" <j.arunm...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. > > Im designing an application in Python for installing some apps. I need > help in the following: > > 1. Whenever I open any app which needs root permissions, it shows me a > popup asking password. And I have seen people refer to this GKSudo. How > can I setup such one for my app? > > 2. Or is there any alternative to GKSudo, like taking password as input > from user and entering it, using os.system("apt install...") or any > such modules? afaik gksu / gksudo is virtually dead. You better use pkexec, for example like this: $ python Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from subprocess import call >>> call(('pkexec', '--disable-internal-agent', '/usr/sbin/synaptic')) > > {In a way such that user need not run the app from terminal using > "sudo /.myapp"; I want this process to more graphical as possible} > > Like do you guys have a better idea in designing a Python based app > which uses apt to install apps. The problem I face is with "how to get > sudo permission". With forums saying graphical apps should not use sudo > and Python based modules which allow calling terminal commands not so > effective; Im confused what to do... If you want to run a gui app with root privilege via pkexec a properly set up policy file for polkit is required. There is one for synaptic at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic.policy , which is why my above example works. Adding policy files like this for random commands however is for reasons of security not recommended. Maybe a better alternative is to use pkexec to run a command line program in the background; you could use subprocess.Popen to catch the output of this program and process it for the gui. > > 3. Is there any documentation available for Python-Apt module? Sure, just install python-apt-doc :-) Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3