XDG-SU(1)XDG-SU(1)NAMExdg-su - run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root
password
SYNOPSISxdg-su [-u user] -c command
xdg-su {--help --manual --version}
DESCRIPTIONxdg-su provides a graphical dialog that prompts the user for a password
to run command as user or as root if no user was specified.
xdg-su is for use inside a desktop session only.
xdg-su discards any stdout and stderr output from command.
OPTIONS-u user
run command as user. The default is to run as root.
--help Show command synopsis.
--manual
Show this manualpage.
--version
Show the xdg-utils version information.
EXIT CODES
An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code
indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:
1 Error in command line syntax.
2 One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
3 A required tool could not be found.
4 The action failed.
SEE ALSOsu(1)EXAMPLESxdg-su-u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"
Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root
permissions.
AUTHOR
Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White.
<kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
<jwhite@codeweavers.com>
This is release 0.5 of the xdg-su 07/31/2006 XDG-SU(1)