[Desktop_printing] Portland tool: xdg-su (Was: Role of CUPS and error handling)

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Apr 4 05:27:04 PDT 2006


Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>> 2.
>> Test that the effective user id is 0
>> otherwise tell the user in the user's language
>> that he must switch to root before running the setup program.
> 
> *shameless plug*
> This step can be automated with the xdg-su tool from the Portland
> project.
> See http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/TaskSu

Probably off-topic, but what about supporting sudo functionality,
such that the user only needs to know their own password and not the
root password?

Seems to be a better choice from a security and usability
standpoint...

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