Connect plugin to program

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 14:23 +0200, Timo wrote:
> Hello all, I want to know if the following can be done with d-bus.
> I have written a program that needs to do all of it's commands as root, 
> so I always start it as root. Now I want to write a plugin for a 
> messenger client that also needs to do these commands, but instead of 
> activating the plugin as root, I was thinking if it was possible to 
> start my main program (as root ofcourse) and then let the plugin use the 
> commands in the program. So the plugin can be used as normal user, but 
> can execute commands that need root-privileges.
> Can d-bus do something like this? The program + plugin are written in 
> Python.

Take a look at hal and gnome-volume-manager for an example of something
like this.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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