2006 Kevin Krammer

kevin.krammer@gmx.at

Jeremy White

jwhite@codeweavers.com

This is release 0.5 of the xdg-su Manual. xdg-su 1 xdg-su run a GUI program as another user (typically root) after prompting for that user's password xdg-su -u user -c command xdg-su --help --manual --version xdg-su provides a graphical dialog that prompts the user for a password to run command as user or as root if no user was specified. xdg-su is for use inside a desktop session only. xdg-su discards any stdout and stderr output from command. -c command the command to run. This argument is mandatory. -u user run command as user. The default is to run as root. --help Show command synopsis. --manual Show this manual page. --version Show the xdg-utils version information. An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned: 1 Error in command line syntax. 2 One of the files passed on the command line did not exist. 3 A required tool could not be found. 4 The action failed. su 1 xdg-su -u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast" Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root permissions.