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fsmithred

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## gksu kdesu, tdesu, ktsuss

Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:58 am

What are the correct paths to all of these? Or maybe just use $(which blah) and not worry about the path.
Here's a sample wrapper script for refractasnapshot-gui that should eliminate the dependency on gksu or other graphical frontend to su/sudo.

Code:
  `#!/usr/bin/env bash
  #
  # Wrapper for refractasnapshot-gui
  #command="/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui"
  command="blkid"
  # I hope nobody uses this, but it's here
  # in case you're running a root xsession.
  if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]] ; then
  "$command"
  exit 0
  fi
  # This will be used to test for sudo nopasswd.
  sudo_allowed=$(sudo -n uptime 2>&1 | grep load | wc -l)
  if [[ -e /usr/bin/gksu ]] ; then
  gksu "$command"
  elif
  [[ -e /usr/bin/kdesu ]] ; then
  kdesu "$command"
  elif
  [[ -e /usr/bin/kdesudo ]] ; then
  kdesudo "$command"
  elif
  #another way to do it
  [[ -e $(which tdesu) ]] ; then
  tdesu "$command"
  elif
  [[ -e $(which ktsuss) ]] ; then
  ktsuss "$command"
  elif
  # for xudo with no password
  [[ $sudo_allowed -ne 0 ]] ; then
  sudo "$command"
  elif
  # for sudo with password
  $(groups $USER | grep -qs sudo); then
  xterm -fa mono -fs 12 -hold -e "sudo $command"
  else
  xterm -fa mono -fs 12 -hold -e su -c "$command"
  fi
  exit 0
  `

thwak

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## Re: gksu kdesu, tdesu, ktsuss

Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:00 pm

I've typed this to check (not in the context of a script, though) then press enter to exit without changes

Code:
  `sudo update-alternatives --config gksu`

dzz

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## Re: gksu kdesu, tdesu, ktsuss

Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:14 pm

$(which blah) should generally be fine but opt/trinity/bin/tdesu might not show up (at least for root) in $PATH .. use the full path. Not sure about kdesu http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=40158
Need to review the licence for ktsuss, it's similar to but not actually GPL. I posted a (monster 33 KB) deb: http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... 1_i386.deb
I would really prefer a more "generic" (non-DE-specific) method which does not alienate users with limited cli skills. X for root (e.g.yad), as mentioned earlier, is likely to be an issue.
fsmithred

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## Re: gksu kdesu, tdesu, ktsuss

Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:55 pm

I may just go with xterm. When I ran snapshot from the menu and didn't get a terminal, I missed it. Most of the time, I run the gui script from command line, because I'm using a different config file, so that the config file that goes into the iso is the default, instead of with all my changes. (filename, compression, save_work, and maybe something else.) And I like being able to see that progress bar for mksquashfs. It lets me know roughly how many other things I can do before it's finished.
And if the wrapper script can't guess correctly whether the user uses su, sudo with password or sudo without password, there can be an error message that says "Run this with root privs, however you get them."
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