NAME¶

xdg-su - run a GUI program as another user (typically root) after prompting for that user's password

SYNOPSIS¶

xdg-su [-u user] -c command

xdg-su {--help | --manual | --version}

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.

-c command

the command to run. This argument is mandatory.

-u user

run command as user. The default is to run as root.

--help

Show command synopsis.

--manual

Show this manual page.

--version

Show the xdg-utils version information.

An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

Error in command line syntax.

One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

A required tool could not be found.

The action failed.

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

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

Kevin Krammer

Author.

Jeremy White

Author.

03/13/2024

This is release 0.5 of the xdg