Greetings all, For the one click install YaST module it is necessary to run the module first as a limited user, to display the details about the operation to be performed, and allow the user to customize it. The installation operation itself must then be performed as root. This is crucial to prevent malicious use of the feature to damage users' systems. At present I am achieving this by constructing a shell command to execute another YaST module as root, to perform the actual installation itself. This does work, but it has a number of problems, most significantly: * Using a shell command is potentially dangerous, I am stripping out special shell characters first, but it is still not ideal. * We cannot easily pass information back from the module running as root to the original module to display status. So my question to you is whether there is a better way to do privilege escalation from within a YaST module, or a better way to do inter-process communication between an instance of YaST running as a regular user, and an instance running as root. Many thanks _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org