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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

xdg-su

XDG-SU(1)																 XDG-SU(1)

NAME

       xdg-su - run a GUI 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.

       xdg-su discards any stdout and stderr output from command.

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.

SEE ALSO

       su(1)

EXAMPLES

       xdg-su -u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"

       Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root permissions.

AUTHOR

       Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White.
       <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
       <jwhite@codeweavers.com>

This is release 0.5 of the xdg-su Manual			    07/31/2006								 XDG-SU(1)

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