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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>xdg-su</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="xdg-su"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>xdg-su &#8212; run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root password</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">xdg-su</code>  [<code class="option">-u <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em></code>]  <code class="option">-c <em class="replaceable"><code>command</code></em></code> </p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">xdg-su</code>  { <code class="option">--help</code>  |   <code class="option">--manual</code>  |   <code class="option">--version</code> }</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
      xdg-su provides a graphical dialog that prompts the user for a password
      to run <em class="replaceable"><code>command</code></em> as <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em>
      or as root if no user was specified.
    </p><p>
      xdg-su is for use inside a desktop session only.
    </p><p>
      xdg-su discards any stdout and stderr output from
      <em class="replaceable"><code>command</code></em>.
    </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="options"></a><h2>Options</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">-u <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em></code></span></dt><dd>
	    run <em class="replaceable"><code>command</code></em> as
            <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em>. The default is to run as root.
	  </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">--help</code></span></dt><dd>
	    Show command synopsis.
	  </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">--manual</code></span></dt><dd>
	    Show this manualpage.
	  </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">--version</code></span></dt><dd>
            Show the xdg-utils version information.
          </dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="exitcodes"></a><h2>Exit Codes</h2><p>
      An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code
      indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:
    </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">1</code></span></dt><dd>
	    Error in command line syntax.
	  </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">2</code></span></dt><dd>
	    One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
	  </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">3</code></span></dt><dd>
	    A required tool could not be found. 
	  </dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">4</code></span></dt><dd>
	    The action failed. 
	  </dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">su</span>(1)</span>
    </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="examples"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>
</p><pre class="programlisting">
xdg-su -u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"
</pre><p>
       Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root permissions.
    </p></div></div></body></html>