Connect plugin to program

[Timo]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams schreef:
> 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.
>
>   

Thanks, but I know very little about C, so has anyone tips/examples for 
doing this in Python?

I found a simple example ( 
http://www.flaper87.org/2008/06/04/communicating-with-our-application-using-python-and-dbus 
), and it works. But if I start the code as root (like my program will 
be), I can't connect to it as normal user.

Timo