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From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
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Subject: Re: Prompt for root password
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On 1/6/06, 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?

If it's a graphical program, you can call the gksudo command from
gnome. Or, if you look in its sourcecode, you can find out how it
works and integrate the same into your program.

Mike
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