R. B. ha scritto:
It has to work on all DEs, not just Gnome or KDE. So it looks like the
easiest way is to make 2 programs. The first checks the id and if it's
not 0 then prompt for root password, write and run a small shell script
that su and runs the second program, run the script and terminate. The
2nd program checks the id if not 0 it terminates. Otherwise it goes on
working as gui pkg mgr.
I think that's what I'll implement unless some one can come up with a
better (easier) solution.
Rod.
Did you give a look to consolehelper?
http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/consolehelper8.html
It may be what you need. Works both from command line and from Gui, and
it doesn't appear to depend on any particular desktop features.
In a nutshell, you create in a place in the user execution path (such as
/usr/bin) a symlink named as the executable and pointing to
consolehelper. Then you place you executable (or a symlink to it) in
/sbin or /usr/sbin. The trick is made. If you're root, /sbin is in your
path, so the real application is called. If you're not, consolehelper is
launched, which prompts you for the root password, validates it and then
launches the application.
Give it a try.
Giuliano
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