Circa 2001-Sep-20 12:38:53 -0700 dixit Sean 'Shaleh' Perry:
: On 20-Sep-2001 Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
: > Perhaps this question is more of an X issue that blackbox, but...
: >
: > I have a few apps that require root privileges. What would be the best
: > way through the "menu" to have those apps prompt for the root password
: > prior to running?
:
: write an xsudo program. The world over will love you, especially if
: you do not use a major toolkit to do it.
You can probably use the OpenSSH passphrase dialog to do some of the
work:
http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/software/x11-ssh-askpass/
The dialog prints the entered pass{word,phrase} on stdout. You should
be able to write a program which popen()s x11-ssh-askpass and then does
pty/tty magic to give the password to su.
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