[Portland] Root/Sudo Access

[Bastian, Waldo]

The primary reason it was pushed off was because some leading distro
people believed that applications shouldn't really want to do that.

On the practical side gtksu, kdesu, sudo and su -c behave differently
with regard to command line parsing. In addition, some return
stout/stderr output, and some don't. Some return meaningful exit codes
and some don't. And gtksu or anything equivalent isn't included by
default in many/some gnome based distributions.

Cheers,
Waldo
 
Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
[mailto:portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Lucas
Smithen
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:21 AM
To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [Portland] Root/Sudo Access

Hello All,

I am currently working to design an application that may at times 
require root/sudo access.  However, as far as I can tell there are 
different ways to do this depending on the end users distribution and 
window manager.  It has been suggested by a colleague that this 
functionality was planned to be included in the Portland Project but was

pushed off due to its complexity.  Could anyone give me some information

on why it may have been pushed off and if plans are still in the works 
to implement such a creature? 

Cheers
 - Lucas
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