[Gambas-user] kdesu vs gksu

[Jesus Guardon]

Thanks for your offer, still very interested to look at your own 
example. I think may be hard to happen on the "universal solution".

Thanks in advance

Jesus


Steven James Drinnan escribió:
> For me I would use neither, it would rely on those packages being
> available. In Fedora it uses its own graphical system - sorry can tell
> you the name its linked directly to the authentication system. As such
> those packages are nowhere to be seen.
> 
> Instead let your package do the checking using shell. 
> 
> There some examples around. If you need I can give you one that you can
> add in to the sample given by Jose J. Rodriguez.
> 
> Steven.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:00 +0200, Jesus Guardon wrote:
>> Thanks, Jose
>>
>> This is a good approach, too. But also not perfect, ;-) ... A friend of 
>> mine tells that in his Debian testing (KDE), no kdesu is available. 
>> Instead it have 'kdesudo', so in this case your code (and David's too) 
>> might fail. We must check for this, too.
>>
>> Another issue is that I want to start, is a daemon process and a bit 
>> later, another process that connects to this daemon. So, to clarify:
>>
>> 1st) I start a daemon with shell "gksu -u root 'some process'"
>>
>> 2nd) Meanwhile (we type the passwd), the other process has started, but 
>> no host to connect to, because this process has started before the 1st 
>> one, which is the host. So my client process fails misserably.
>>
>> I'm not be able to use WAIT in the first shell statement, because a 
>> daemon never stops running, so I need to insert a 'WAIT n' in between, 
>> not very elegant...
>>
>> Sorry for the brick
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Jesus
>>
>> Jose J. Rodriguez escribió:
>>> On 5/18/09, Jesus Guardon <jguardon at ...2035...> wrote:
>>>> Yes, I know it may be a little off-topic, but the question is:
>>>>
>>>>  I need to launch a process with root privileges from SHELL command in
>>>>  Gambas. Users of my application can have Gnome or KDE, so I don't know
>>>>  which command I must issue to get it to work.
>>>>
>>>>  Is there a way to choose between either gksu o kdesu commands at runtime?
>>>>  I've figured it out if it could be something like:
>>>>
>>>>   SHELL "gksu | kdesu -u root 'some_command'"
>>>>
>>>>  or
>>>>
>>>>  SHELL "gksu -u root 'some_command' | kdesu -u root 'some_command'"
>>>>
>>> Here's what I do in the vl-hot-config utility:
>>>
>>> *******************************************************
>>> ' Gambas module file
>>>
>>> PUBLIC SUB Main()
>>> DIM MyProc AS Process
>>> DIM Ret AS String
>>>
>>> IF System.User.Id <> 0 THEN
>>>    EXEC ["which", "kdesu"] TO Ret
>>>    IF InStr(Ret, "kdesu") THEN
>>>       EXEC ["kdesu", Application.Path &/ "vl-hot-config.gambas"]
>>>    ELSE
>>>       EXEC ["which", "gksu"] TO Ret
>>>       IF InStr(Ret, "gksu") THEN
>>>          EXEC ["gksu", Application.Path &/ "vl-hot-config.gambas"]
>>>       ELSE
>>>          PRINT "No kdesu or gksu available (vl-hot-config needs to run
>>> as root)..."
>>>       ENDIF
>>>    ENDIF
>>>    QUIT
>>> ENDIF
>>>
>>> FMain.Show
>>>
>>> END
>>> *******************************************************
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Joe1962
>>>
>>>