[Gambas-user] sudo or gksudo in SHELL?

[Stefano Palmeri]

Alle 16:35, sabato 23 febbraio 2008, Stefano Palmeri ha scritto:
> Alle 13:39, sabato 23 febbraio 2008, Maximillian Von Kloisterheim ha 
scritto:
> > Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > > I've attached an example.  It shows how to send the password to sudo.
> > > You have to change the "your_commad_here" in the code.
> > >
> > > Stefano
> >
> > Thanks Stefano, that works a treat. However, Iv asked about this before
> > (Not in relation to Gambas) and was told that doing this would leave an
> > unencrypted copy of my password in the .bash-history file.
> >
> > That's why I was trying to get gksudo to ask me for a password, so the
> > system is still dealing with the security and I'm simply passing along
> > the commands.
> >
> > Failing this as an option, is there a way to force the program itself to
> > be run only under sudo/gksudo, so that the system asks for the password
> > before the program runs? (In the same way as I always have to enter my
> > password before I can open Synaptic for example)
> >
> > I know this can be done with a command line once the program is compiled
> > and installed, but can this be done from within the development
> > environment?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Max
>
> Oh, well. It seems you are running Ubuntu, so you have to do a little
> testing because I don't know sudo works under Ubuntu.
> On Slackware, when I run a program under sudo, the user of that
> program becomes "root" so it's really easy to check:
>
> IF User.Name <> "root" THEN
>   PRINT "You must be root or use sudo"
>   QUIT
> ENDIF
>
> but I don't know Ubuntu policy for sudo. Try this
> little test:
>
> run:
>
> sudo gedit (be sure there's only a gedit process)
>
> and leave the editor open
>
> then on terminal run:
>
> ps aux | grep gedit | grep -v grep
>
> and check who is the owner/user (first field) of the gedit
> process. It could be something (root, admin) that you can use for the
> checking as above.
>
> Bye,
>
> Stefano
>

Also, you could do :

IF User.Name <> "root" THEN
   SHELL "gksudo " & Application.Args[0] WAIT 
   QUIT 
ENDIF

but this works after the project was compiled as executable. 

Stefano




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