FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Sudo not the best but better than nothing

[Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

gksudo is the gnome graphical sudo. But it has issues with how it woks (more 
like su) and a different and incompatible command line structure. 

What follows is a bash sell exert that runs a command with gui or cli sudo. 
Arguments are handled incompatibly by sudo and gksudo and so can't be provided.

setup_sudo()
{
    MSG="$NAME : Needs to run '$2' as root to $1." 
    echo "$MSG"
    if which 'gksudo' > /dev/null
    then
        if ! gksudo '--sudo-mode' -m "$MSG" -- $2
        then
            echo "$NAME" ': WARNING : gksudo cancelled or failed'
        fi                       
    else
        if ! sudo $2
        then
            echo "$NAME" ': WARNING : sudo cancelled or failed'
        fi                       
    fi
}

 
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