su-to-root - A simple script to give an `interactive' front-end to
su. It can be used in menu entry commands to ask for the root password
su-to-root [-X] [-p <user>] -c <command>
Most menu entries simply start an editor or a game or whatever.
But some menu entries would like to give the user the ability to change
important settings in the system, that require root privileges.
su-to-root can be used to ask for the root password.
- -c <command>
- The command to execute as a string. This option is mandatory.
- -p <user>
- The name of the user to change to, instead of root.
- -X
- The command is a X11 program that does not require a terminal. This is to
be used with menu entries that declare needs="X11".
- SU_TO_ROOT_X
- Select the su-like program called by su-to-root -X. Supported
values are gksu, kdesu, kde4su, ktsuss,
sux, sudo-askpass, gksudo and kdesudo.
kde4su denotes the KDE4 version of kdesu.
sudo-askpass require ssh-askpass to be installed.
- When this variable is not set su-to-root will currently try to use
gksu, kdesu, kde4su, ktsuss, sux and
the built-in code, in that order with the exception that under a KDE
session, kdesu and kde4su are prefered over
gksu.
- The exact set of programs to try and their order is subject to change
without notice.
- SU_TO_ROOT_SU
- Select the su-like program used in text mode. Supported values are
sudo, sux and su, the later being the default.
- /etc/su-to-rootrc
- ~/.su-to-rootrc
- su-to-root will source these files at startup in this order. This
lets you define and modify the environment variables above without
restarting your X session.
su-to-root is distributed under the GNU General Public
License. (GPL 2.0 or greater).
Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
X11 support by Morten Brix Pedersen and Bill Allombert
<ballombe@debian.org>