Could someone please point me to where/how to grant my python application, installed with a .desktop file into gnome, permission to talk to certain devices on USB?
When I run the application from the command line with sudo, usb communication works, but when I run from the gnome application menu, no luck.
What is the best practice for granting these types of permissions when an application is installed and launched with a .desktop file?
Thanks
Hi,
I'm not sure this is the answer you are looking for, but, _if_ you require "root" permissions for your application to work, one of the possible was would be to use one of the existing wrappers to start your application from the .desktop file. I'm not sure which one is used by Fedora, but I was a bit fond of 'xdg-su' in another distribution I regularly use. To use with xdg-su (a part of xdg-utils ??) would be something like (in the desktop file):
Exec: xdg-su -c "/usr/bin/app"
This would ask the user for root password when launching the application. Though I suspect you are looking for something else.
NM
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 15:07 -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote:
Could someone please point me to where/how to grant my python application, installed with a .desktop file into gnome, permission to talk to certain devices on USB?
When I run the application from the command line with sudo, usb communication works, but when I run from the gnome application menu, no luck.
What is the best practice for granting these types of permissions when an application is installed and launched with a .desktop file?
Thanks
Hello,
same as the precedent mail, don't know if it's what you are requesting but maybe you can look at "consolehelper".
You place your binary in /usr/sbin and link to it in /usr/bin with consolehelper to have a graphical prompt for the root password upon execution.
For example (bat from bacula package):
[slaanesh@3zpc0560 ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/bat /usr/sbin/bat lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 5 dic 15.18 /usr/bin/bat -> consolehelper -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1376520 5 dic 15.13 /usr/sbin/bat
[slaanesh@3zpc0560 ~]$ cat /etc/security/console.apps/bat USER=root PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/bat SESSION=true FALLBACK=true
[slaanesh@3zpc0560 ~]$ cat /etc/pam.d/bat #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so auth include system-auth session optional pam_xauth.so session optional pam_timestamp.so account required pam_permit.so
Regards, --Simone
On 5 December 2011 09:23, Nelson Manuel Marques < nelson-m-marques@ext.ptinovacao.pt> wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure this is the answer you are looking for, but, _if_ you require "root" permissions for your application to work, one of the possible was would be to use one of the existing wrappers to start your application from the .desktop file. I'm not sure which one is used by Fedora, but I was a bit fond of 'xdg-su' in another distribution I regularly use. To use with xdg-su (a part of xdg-utils ??) would be something like (in the desktop file):
Exec: xdg-su -c "/usr/bin/app"
This would ask the user for root password when launching the application. Though I suspect you are looking for something else.
NM
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 15:07 -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote:
Could someone please point me to where/how to grant my python application, installed with a .desktop file into gnome, permission to talk to certain devices on USB?
When I run the application from the command line with sudo, usb communication works, but when I run from the gnome application menu, no luck.
What is the best practice for granting these types of permissions when an application is installed and launched with a .desktop file?
Thanks
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Thank you for your feedback and suggestions to prompt the user for their password with a visual sudo tool.
Fortunately, it looks like I can bypass sudo requirements, for this project, if my rpm can install two files (one is a .sh) into /etc/udev/
Is the right way to do this using %files in my spec?
In /etc/udev you should only have rules.
Try what you think is right and then check all rpms with the "rpmlint" commands, it will print most of the things you could do or not inside packages. It's a great tool to learn.
2011/12/5 Erik Blankinship erikb@mediamods.com
Thank you for your feedback and suggestions to prompt the user for their password with a visual sudo tool.
Fortunately, it looks like I can bypass sudo requirements, for this project, if my rpm can install two files (one is a .sh) into /etc/udev/
Is the right way to do this using %files in my spec?
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