Thank you! pkexec works perfectly!
2013/5/4 Arnel A. Borja <kyous...@yahoo.com> > Hello, > > > On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 19:48 +0200, Christian Capasso wrote: > >> If I need root's permissions, for example when it comes to the format, >> or to the umount, what should I do? Should I use Process.spawn or not? >> > > If you need root permissions, you could: > > - Use Process.spawn_async_with_pipes if you want to use sudo or su. > These programs ask for the password from the standard input so you need > to check the pipes for "Password" or "password". Then show your own > dialog for asking password. > > - Use Process.spawn_async if you want to use gksudo, gksu, gnomesu or > pkexec as recommended by Shawn Ferris. I think the best would be pkexec, > since it uses a dialog that matches the desktop environment and > available on most distros (Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE has it). The > other ones have their own password dialog. > > - Create a DBus service then use polkit. This is a good choice (the > administrator could control what actions the users could execute, ...) > but harder than the ones above. This is how official GNOME applications > do formatting/mounting and other actions. It is also possible to use an > existing service, gnome-disks has actions for mounting, unmounting and > formatting partitions. > > > Regards, > > Arnel > > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
