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 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:26 pm Post subject: fluxbox - run apps as root dialog [SOLVED] |
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Hi all !
I recently moved to fluxbox from gnome3 ! And i'm loving it, until now !
With gnome3, every time i had to run an application as root (ie virt-manager), a dialog window would appear asking for the root password and granting my user privileges - this case, to connect to libvirtd.
I think this would be gksu or something like it.
How can i accomplish this with fluxbox ?
I have policykit in my USE flags ! What agent (if any) do i must install or having started at boot so i can have some sort of dialog asking for permissions ?
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Bruno Santos
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feiticeir0
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Just emerge gnome-extra/polkit-gnome and added to my fluxbox startup
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/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
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Enabled polkit.service and console-kit-daemon.service in systemd
Everything works !
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To run programs as root, or any other user, for that matter, I simply use sudo.
I have a menu item (~/.fluxbox/menu)
| Code: | | [exec] (Xterm) {xhost +; sudo -i -A -p 'xterm on %h by %u as %U' /usr/bin/xterm -j -cm || xmessage -buttons "Ok" "Failed."} |
I have installed | Code: | | net-misc/ssh-askpass-fullscreen |
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feiticeir0
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| lyallp wrote: | To run programs as root, or any other user, for that matter, I simply use sudo.
I have a menu item (~/.fluxbox/menu)
| Code: | | [exec] (Xterm) {xhost +; sudo -i -A -p 'xterm on %h by %u as %U' /usr/bin/xterm -j -cm || xmessage -buttons "Ok" "Failed."} |
I have installed | Code: | | net-misc/ssh-askpass-fullscreen |
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Thank you for your reply, but that only works with SSH or does it work also for any other program ?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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ssh-askpass-fullscreen works just fine with sudo, as described.
Either set SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable in /etc/env.d/99ssh_askpass OR set /etc/sudo.conf | Code: | | Path askpass /usr/bin/ssh-askpass-fullscreen |
. Either way makes it globally available to all users.
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feiticeir0
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| lyallp wrote: | ssh-askpass-fullscreen works just fine with sudo, as described.
Either set SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable in /etc/env.d/99ssh_askpass OR set /etc/sudo.conf | Code: | | Path askpass /usr/bin/ssh-askpass-fullscreen |
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Hi !
Thank you ! I've setup the environment variable, configured SUDO and now I execute virt-manager using sudo -A virt-manager and everything works just fine ! Thank you !
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