Gambas: reading a shell password

Mattentaart · 10-28-2005, 11:32 AM

hey,
I'm writing a simple program in Gambas:
i want a nice gui for a shellcommand, being "sudo vpnc"
as you can see, I have to "sudo" the command, so in a console it asks me to enter my password:

Code:

benjamin@Benjamin:~$ sudo vpnc
Password:

now I know how to execute the command in gambas:

Code:

SHELL "sudo vpnc"

but how do you fill in the password?
I tried about everything I could think of, but sadly my programming skills are nil to none.

I would really appreciate the help!

spooon · 10-29-2005, 11:02 PM

I'm thinking maybe you should make the script owned by root and give it setuid permissions, so that it executes as root and you don't have to use sudo.

Mattentaart · 10-30-2005, 05:39 AM

perhaps a stupid question, but how do I do that?

can I just program it as root and then set it so every user can run it or is there a special command?

thanks for the idea