Re: [opensuse] Running a program as root from desktop panel

On Friday 12 October 2007 00:57:31 Jake Conk wrote:

No you misunderstood, good try though.

Grrr... top-posting. You're breaking the logic of the thread. I'd say Roger understood perfectly what you're trying to achieve. He's given you a solution based on KDE, but it's a trivial adaptation for GNOME (which you've already mentioned you've got). sudo is going to be a waste of time, as it will be expecting a terminal console in which to enter the password to allow privileged access. However, if you look at Roger's script he's checking to see if the current user is id 0 (this is root by the way). If it is, then the application is launched. If not, then it launches the application via kdesu. kdesu, in case you didn't know, is a 'wrapper' binary that prompts for the root password to launch a privileged application. It's how YaST2 is launched in the KDE desktop environment. Now as you mentioned you've got GNOME available you might want to look again at Roger's script, and google for gnomesu Jon

On 10/11/07, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 03:57 -0700, Jake Conk wrote:

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Hello,

i want to add a program to my desktop panel but it needs to be ran as root when clicked... How do make a it prompt for my root password when I click on that application from a panel? I tried putting sudo in front of it in hopes a prompt of some sort will come up but no luck.

Regards, - Jake

PS. If it matters, I'm running Xfce but I have Gnome installed if I need something from gnome.

Or KDE? This may run outside KDE. I use something like this:

LAUNCH_CMD="MyCommand"

if test `id -u` -eq 0 ; then exec $LAUNCH_CMD 2> /dev/null else kdesu -n -c "$LAUNCH_CMD" 2> /dev/null fi

I send errors to /dev/null for the heck of it. Remove as needed.

-- Roger Oberholtzer

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