[SOLVED] Make netcfg ask for root password

norswap · 2010-03-17 12:35:39

I'd like netcfg to behave like yaourt or bauerbill and ask for root password when launched as a user (therefore removing the need to prefix it with sudo). But I'm not quite sure as how to do that.

I'm taking any clue on how to do that (btw : has the sudoers file anything to do with it ? or does it serve a different purpose ?)

Last edited by norswap (2010-03-18 08:32:59)

Daenyth · 2010-03-17 13:07:58

Why not just read how yaourt does it?

n0dix · 2010-03-17 13:56:25

Nevermind

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lowie82ph · 2010-03-17 14:01:15

make an alias of 'sudo netcfg'

read: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bashrc#Aliases

ruffedgz · 2010-03-17 17:06:31

If you want to run a program by typing in the root password only, I would probably make an 'alias' like lowie82ph said but used the command below for the alias:

alias netcfg = 'su - -c 'netcfg'

If you want it to run the whole command then you can do that as well with an alias:

alias home_netcfg = 'su - -c 'netcfg -c home'

Hope this helps with your question

norswap · 2010-03-17 17:14:23

@lowie & ruffedgz : thank you

@Daenyth : Maybe this place is called newbie corner for a reason after all, as I can't even figure out where bauerbill (yaourt went away) is installed (I used whereis but I can't only find a very simple perl script which seems to launch something else but I can't quite figure out what). Also I tought the process might be quite complicated, but you're right and I should try it anyway.

Edit : I looked at yaourt source, and having absolutely no knowledge in bash scripting, this seems indeed quite complicated to me.

Last edited by norswap (2010-03-17 19:17:37)

Daenyth · 2010-03-17 21:22:50

bauerbill is perl, and it loads the powerpill library and baurbill extensions like a good OO program. That's why I specified yaourt, which is a fugly POS bash script.

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#1 2010-03-17 12:35:39

[SOLVED] Make netcfg ask for root password

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