Script Asking For Root Rights (Installer)

[GernotFrisch]

Hi,

I want to make a .sh script that uses (zenity?) to ask the user for the sudo password and then performs "opkg install xxx".

Can you please assist?

Thank you.

 

[Tempel]

The graphical equivalent for sudo is "gksu" (or "gksudo", I think they're about the same thing). It should be installed already. Just use gksu anywhere you would have otherwise used sudo.

 

[notaz]

#!/bin/sh

if zenity --question --text "ok or cancel?"; then
gksudo do_it
echo ok
else
echo cancel
fi

 

[dflemstr]

...or just do 'gksudo -m "We wanna do this and that as root, cancel now or live with it."'

...or 'gksudo -D "Installing drivers"'