Tor Norbye wrote: (snip...) > On Linux this is pretty easy; launch gem via the gksu command. This > will produce the familiar system "enter your admin password" dialog > and then run the subprocess as root as appropriate, and the install > should succeed. > > Is the same command available on Solaris? If so, we can probably do > this fairly simply. (I started on this work a while back, but > abandoned it when I discovered that this was much trickier on OSX and > Windows.).
Yes, OpenSolaris's JDS includes gksu, and it's in the Solaris Express builds. I suspect recent S10 does as well (since NB6 may be targeting more than Web Stack does at the moment). - Matt -- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Global Systems Practice http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: matt.ingenthron at sun.com Phone: 310-242-6439
