Part of my python program needs administrator access. How can I gain root privileges using a GUI popup similar to the gksudo command?
I only need root privileges for a small part of my program so it would be preferable to only have the privileges for a particular function.
I'm hoping to be able to do something like:
gksudo(my_func, 'description of why password is needed')
You have two options here:
You will need to make the part of the program that requires root privileges a separate file and then execute the file like this:
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call(['gksudo','python that_file.py'])
which will bring up the password prompt and run that_file.py as root
You could also require that a program be run as root from the start and just have the program user type "gksudo python your_program.py" in the command-line from the start which is obviously not the best idea if your program is normally launched from a menu.