ktsuss wrapper

AltF4 · Post by **AltF4** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:25 pm

I've finally found a simple, low dependency replacement for gksu/kdesu for use with pcmanfm.

The only problem is it doesn't handle input from pcmanfm very well (or any gui sending multiple arguments it seams - e.g. pcmanfm --no-desktop '/tmp').

I've managed to write a wrapper script to aid in this task based on a few other scripts hidden on the net. I've been using it for a few days with pcmanfm and emelfm2 without any issue's so I thought I'd post it here encase anyone else finds it useful.

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#!/bin/sh

# /usr/bin/ktsuss-wrapper

PATH="${PATH}:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin"
CMD="$*"
BIN="$1"

if [ -x "`type -path ktsuss`" ]; then
  KTSUSS="`type -path ktsuss` -u root"
else
  echo "ktsuss-wrapper: \`ktsuss' command not found"
  exit 1
fi

if [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then
  KTSUSS=""
fi

if [ -x "`type -path $BIN`" ]; then
  eval $KTSUSS $CMD
else
  echo "ktsuss-wrapper: \`$BIN' command not found"
  exit 1
fi

To make use of this script you will obviously need ktsuss and compile pcmanfm with --with-preferable-sudo=ktsuss-wrapper