Sudoers list?
Daniel Carrera
daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Tue Apr 4 21:14:05 UTC 2006
Chris Bannister wrote:
>> I don't want to force people to run this script as root. Running stuff
>> as root is a really bad habit. I want this script to be as non-root
>> friendly as possible. There is only one step that *might* warrant root
>> access and that's if the destination directory belongs to root.
>
> Just run gksudo and test for whatever error code it gives if the user
> isn't in the sudoers file / gives the wrong password.
The problem with that is that is that the user still gets a password
prompt even if they are not sudoers.
I guess I'll just assume that the user is a sudoer and give them the
prompt...
Best,
Daniel.
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