asking root password

madogy · 10-26-2005, 06:14 AM

how can i make a program installed by a normal user ask for the root password and then execute a command only root can execute.

example: i want my application to change the ip.
so i ask the user to give me the root password and i do my work
how can i do that? i want the main idea, it is not necesarry the whole code
thanks a lot

vmlinuz101 · 10-26-2005, 06:33 AM

chown root <package>

fvgestel · 10-26-2005, 06:40 AM

In a shell script you can use the su command. eg :
su -c "<command to be executed as root>"

madogy · 10-28-2005, 03:43 AM

thanks a lot