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From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
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Subject: Re: Prompt for root password
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--- JD Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> wrote:

> 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?

Here is a start:

$ su root -c 'man su'


	

	
		
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