Tor Norbye wrote:
> On Linux this is pretty easy; launch gem via the gksu command. This
> will produce the familiar system "enter your admin password" dialog
> and then run the subprocess as root as appropriate, and the install
> should succeed.
>
> Is the same command available on Solaris? If so, we can probably do
> this fairly simply. (I started on this work a while back, but
> abandoned it when I discovered that this was much trickier on OSX and
> Windows.).
>
It's present in Nevada at least:
trond at muffin > type gksu
gksu is /bin/gksu
User Commands GKSU(1)
NAME
gksu - a Gtk+ su frontend
SYNOPSIS
gksu [ options ] <command>
gksudo [ options ] <command>
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly gksu and gksudo
gksu is a frontend to su and gksudo is a frontend to sudo.
Their primary purpose is to run graphical commands that need
root without the need to run an X terminal emulator and
using su directly.
Trond
