Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:36:05 -0500 From: JD Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Prompt for root password Message-ID: <dplv84$pnt$1@sea.gmane.org>
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I'm writing a program that needs to write a file and I'd like to have it
ask for the root password and run as root, like many of the system config
applications do. Do I have to write something special, or is there some
way to tell KDE (or GNOME) to prompt for the root password? Is this what
a "setuid" program is?
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Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
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UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.
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