[Gambas-user] No Graphical sudo program found

[Brian G]

There are a couple of projects in the farm, that allow a gambas program to act as a graphical sudo.

The app that gets a password is written in gambas and is called by the sudo -A

set environment variable to the Gambas pasword asker App you write

Env["SUDO_ASKPASS"] = GambasGraphicPasswordAsker ' get the name of this executable

sudo -A  program_to_run_as_su

The -A will start the gambas password asker(can be any gambas graphics program)

The gambas password program that gets the password from the user does this

 Print passwordbox.text  ' the sudo askpass -A expects this app to print the password to std out

Hope this helps


"Failure is the key to success; 
 each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
Brian G

----- On Dec 30, 2021, at 7:26 AM, T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at gmail.com wrote:

> On 12/30/21 10:11, Gianluigi wrote:
>> Hi Benoit and All,
>> 
>> one of our friend of the Italian Forum, using this code:
>> 
>> Desktop.RunAsRoot("sudo apt-get autoclean")
>> 
>> Gets this answer:
>> 
>> No Graphical sudo program found
>> 
>> What can we say to him?
>> 
>> Here the system information: (*)
>> 
>> Regards
>> Gianluigi
>> (*)|
>> |
>> |[System]|
>> ||
>> 
>> |Gambas=3.15.2
>> OperatingSystem=Linux
>> Kernel=5.10.0-10-amd64
>> Architecture=x86_64
>> Distribution=Debian
>> Desktop=MATE
>> Theme=fusion
>> Language=it_IT.UTF-8
>> Memory=3801M|
> 
> Perhaps he needs something like 'kdesudo' (for KDE-based desktops) or 'gksudo'
> (GTK). But, I do not know what the MATE desktop
> would use.
> 
> 
> --
> Lee
> 
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