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Claire Gould
Apr 6, 2002, 4:06:20 PM4/6/02
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I am writing a GUI to the IPChains and IPTables tools. I was hoping to
prompt the user for the root password rather than telling them to log in as
root (if they aren't already!).
prompt the user for the root password rather than telling them to log in as
root (if they aren't already!).
Is this possible? If so, how would I be able to check the password?
Many thanks,
Claire
Morten Nilsen
Apr 6, 2002, 5:38:48 PM4/6/02
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I don't have any experience with GUI programming for X, but my guess is
you make a GUI wrapper to su, and then show that wrapper whenever the
user isn't root.
thus producing this process tree;
[user] myfrontend
su
[root] myfrontend
If you get my idea...
basic conceptual code;
if(user!=root) {
wrap("su - -c myfrontend");
return 0;
}
frontend code here
return 0;
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Tony Lawrence
Apr 7, 2002, 6:58:11 AM4/7/02
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See "man consolehelper"
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