XDG\-SU

Section: xdg-su Manual (1)
Updated: 12/10/2011
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NAME

xdg-su - run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root password

SYNOPSIS

xdg-su [-s] [-x] user command
xdg-su {--help | --manual | --version}

DESCRIPTION

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.

You can create an empty "xdg-sudo" file in /etc to use sudo as default to override default "su" mechanism and can avoid using "-s" option.

OPTIONS

user

: run command as user. The default is to run as root.

-s

: run command via sudo

-x

: run command via su. If sudo is default.

--help

: Show command synopsis.

--manual

: Show this manualpage.

--version

: Show the xdg-utils version information.

EXIT CODES

An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

: Error in command line syntax.

: One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

: A required tool could not be found.

: The action failed.

EXAMPLES

xdg-su -s user -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"

Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command as "user" via sudo.

AUTHORS

Kevin Krammer

: Author.

Jeremy White

: Author.

Atilla ÖNTAŞ

: Author.