[Gambas-user] Delete a file requiring Admin privilege

[John Rose]

Tobias,

You were correct:

Exec ["gksudo", Shell$("desktop-file-install " & Shell$(sPath))]

did not work.

I've posted this as issue #400 on 
https://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues. It'll be interesting to see 
Benoit's take on this. Unless there's a solution/workaround, it looks 
like it's best to use Shell when using gksudo.

Regards,
John

On 03/02/13 15:39, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2013, John Rose wrote:
>> I've just tried using Exec with "gksudo" and having only one
>> concatenated parameter:
>> Exec ["gksudo", "desktop-file-install " & "--dir=" & sInstallDirectory &
>> " " & sPath] To sOutput
>>
>> It gave no errors but it didn't work.
>>
>> I was using Shell and that worked with Shell$ applied to the directory
>> and path variables above. But I thought that I'd try using Exec as the
>> equivalent gksudo command to the above can be run in Terminal i.e. not
>> using bash.
> So, putting it all together, I _suppose_ that the following happens:
>
> - gksudo takes the command to execute and all its parameters in one single
>    argument.
> - it elevates its privileges and calls the shell to execute the command
>    given.
>
> Consequently the following may work:
>
> Exec ["gksudo", Shell$("desktop-file-install " & Shell$(sPath))]
>
> I read about some hacks in the code which would allow you to use "--" to
> separate arguments to gksudo and the program being called. Maybe you can
> experiment a little bit if the above does not work (I fear it). If, on the
> other side, it does work, then I would suggest using the Shell instruction
> instead of Exec :-)
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
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