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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Change the user during application execution
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-17 15:44:23
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On Tuesday 17 October 2000 14:37, Joseph WENNINGER wrote :
>Hi
>
>Sorry for being off topic, but I don't know where too ask.
>
>I wrote an application (Klinuxscsimanager), which has to be run as root.
>How can I open a dialog to enter the root password and change to root rights 
>during application execution ?
>Are their more ways to accomplish this ? If yes, which is the best one ?

kdesu, as explained in a previous post.

Either as "kdesu appname", or you can incorporate it into your application
since kdesu comes with a library (libkdesu, obviously).

kdesu is in kdebase, libkdesu is in kdelibs.

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