Hi Stian: Thanks for your reply. Following your mechanism, stderr contains one line that says I need a real tty.
Essentially because of this: http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/sudo-error-sorry-you-must-have-a-tty-to-run-sudo I like suid that you suggested but I am not able to chown something to root unless I am root. Not sure what else I can do if I just need users to temporarily gain hold of root access from nautilus. Mark On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Stian Skjelstad <st...@nixia.no> wrote: > Try to redirect the output in order to see what happens. I suspect that > sudo refuses to run if it detects that it is not ran via a terminal of some > sort. Alternative could be to flag your executable suid (run as owner):*** > * > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Redirection:**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > echo ”some password” | sudo –S somecommand > /tmp/log.stdout 2> > /tmp/log.stderr**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Suid:**** > > ** ** > > #only make directory accessable by owner (user)**** > > chmod 700 /home/user/bin**** > > #set owner of yourprogram to root**** > > chown root /home/user/bin/yourprogram**** > > #set setuid flag on yourprogram**** > > chmod u+s /home/user/bin/yourprogram**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Stian Skjelstad**** > > ** ** > > *Fra:* nautilus-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto: > nautilus-list-boun...@gnome.org] *På vegne av* Mark S. Townsley > *Sendt:* 24. juni 2011 23:36 > *Til:* nautilus-list@gnome.org > *Emne:* sudo and nautilus**** > > ** ** > > **** > > Hi:**** > > **** > > I am using Nautilus file browser (version 2.30.0). **** > > **** > > I have written a C++ program, compiled. Part of that use system() C api > to execute a bash script. The bash script does**** > > **** > > echo "some password" | sudo -S <some executable>**** > > **** > > **** > > The executable runs fine. But if I run from nautilus, it never gets to > call that system() line. I tried creating the bash script dynamically > right before system() is called and the script is created. From within the > script, I tried to write a file but it never happens. So I know the script > is not called.**** > > If I execute the script directly from Nautilus, it works though.**** > > **** > > What am I missing? Calling an executable that in turn calls another > executable is not allowed in Nautlius? **** > > **** > > Thanks for any tips.**** > > **** > > Mark**** >
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