Scripting

[Firewing1]

Hi,
I'm not sure how to do this, but I'd really appreciate it if someone helped me out on how to. What I'd like is to script that asks me if I want to su. So, pretty much, I click on my taskbar button, I want it then to open a terminal with this message:
Do you want to log in as root? [yes or no]

Yes, asks for password, no, runs normally...

I know this so far about scripting; You start it with #! /bin/bash, end w/ exit, and I also know the basic stuff, like echo, so on... but not how to ask questions and read responses from the user...

Thanks so much,
Firewing1

[rogue]

Hi Firewing... the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (http://howtos.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/) should answer all of your questions.

If you just want to su so a root-only program can run, I'm fairly sure the Gnome authorization application (the name escapes me right now) will automagically kick in for you under certain circumstances.

Also, if you just need to prompt the user and don't need a terminal open, you can invoke dialog widgets (http://howtos.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/assortedtips.shtml) (gdialog, kdialog and xdialog) in your shell script.

[Jaya_Mani]

Hai Rogue,

The link is not working http://howtos.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/. Can you please provide us the correct link.

We are also looking for a script to creat a installer.

Thank you very much
Jaya

[leigh123linux]

Hai Rogue,

The link is not working http://howtos.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/. Can you please provide us the correct link.

We are also looking for a script to creat a installer.

Thank you very much
Jaya


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