[Gambas-user] How to authenticate and switch to root user from within gambas application?

[Fabien Bodard]

look at the console example !

you can run a virtual shell and then execute something in it !

maybe it can work ! And you need it as the instance for the program need to
be the same as the su one !

Fabien



2006/10/3, Jose J. Rodriguez <joe1962 at ...626...>:
>
> On 10/2/06, Jose J. Rodriguez <joe1962 at ...626...> wrote:
> > Anybody have an idea how to switch to the root user from within a
> > Gambas application? There would be a dialog asking for the password,
> > of course, but how to authenticate and switch to running as root
> > afterwards?
> >
>
> I've checked the gksu source code and it execs "su". When I try to
> EXEC or SHELL it in Gambas however, I get "su: must be run from a
> terminal" in the Gambas console.
>
> Regards,
> Joe1962
>
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