Name
xdg-su — run a program as root after prompting for the root password
Synopsis
xdg-su
[-u user
] -c 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.
Options
-u user
-
run
command
as
user
. The default is to run as root.
--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:
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.
Examples
xdg-su -u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"
Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root permissions.