Thanks for your offer, still very interested to look at your own example. I think may be hard to happen on the "universal solution".
Thanks in advance Jesus Steven James Drinnan escribió: > For me I would use neither, it would rely on those packages being > available. In Fedora it uses its own graphical system - sorry can tell > you the name its linked directly to the authentication system. As such > those packages are nowhere to be seen. > > Instead let your package do the checking using shell. > > There some examples around. If you need I can give you one that you can > add in to the sample given by Jose J. Rodriguez. > > Steven. > > > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:00 +0200, Jesus Guardon wrote: >> Thanks, Jose >> >> This is a good approach, too. But also not perfect, ;-) ... A friend of >> mine tells that in his Debian testing (KDE), no kdesu is available. >> Instead it have 'kdesudo', so in this case your code (and David's too) >> might fail. We must check for this, too. >> >> Another issue is that I want to start, is a daemon process and a bit >> later, another process that connects to this daemon. So, to clarify: >> >> 1st) I start a daemon with shell "gksu -u root 'some process'" >> >> 2nd) Meanwhile (we type the passwd), the other process has started, but >> no host to connect to, because this process has started before the 1st >> one, which is the host. So my client process fails misserably. >> >> I'm not be able to use WAIT in the first shell statement, because a >> daemon never stops running, so I need to insert a 'WAIT n' in between, >> not very elegant... >> >> Sorry for the brick >> >> Best regards >> >> Jesus >> >> Jose J. Rodriguez escribió: >>> On 5/18/09, Jesus Guardon <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Yes, I know it may be a little off-topic, but the question is: >>>> >>>> I need to launch a process with root privileges from SHELL command in >>>> Gambas. Users of my application can have Gnome or KDE, so I don't know >>>> which command I must issue to get it to work. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to choose between either gksu o kdesu commands at runtime? >>>> I've figured it out if it could be something like: >>>> >>>> SHELL "gksu | kdesu -u root 'some_command'" >>>> >>>> or >>>> >>>> SHELL "gksu -u root 'some_command' | kdesu -u root 'some_command'" >>>> >>> Here's what I do in the vl-hot-config utility: >>> >>> ******************************************************* >>> ' Gambas module file >>> >>> PUBLIC SUB Main() >>> DIM MyProc AS Process >>> DIM Ret AS String >>> >>> IF System.User.Id <> 0 THEN >>> EXEC ["which", "kdesu"] TO Ret >>> IF InStr(Ret, "kdesu") THEN >>> EXEC ["kdesu", Application.Path &/ "vl-hot-config.gambas"] >>> ELSE >>> EXEC ["which", "gksu"] TO Ret >>> IF InStr(Ret, "gksu") THEN >>> EXEC ["gksu", Application.Path &/ "vl-hot-config.gambas"] >>> ELSE >>> PRINT "No kdesu or gksu available (vl-hot-config needs to run >>> as root)..." >>> ENDIF >>> ENDIF >>> QUIT >>> ENDIF >>> >>> FMain.Show >>> >>> END >>> ******************************************************* >>> >>> Regards, >>> Joe1962 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
