[PyQt] Asking for temporary privilege elevation

[Barry]

> On 6 Jan 2018, at 15:33, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/6/18, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> 
>> This is not pyqt problem.
> 
> Never said it was. Just wanted to know what approach PyQt users employ
> for this problem.
> 
>> But short answer is you cannot change current
>> process privs.
> 
> OK.
> 
>> Use subprocess to spawn a sudo command line. You need to set sudo askpass to
>> allow the sudo password to be entered.
> 
> To avoid external dependency on an askpass program (and there only
> seem to be "ssh-askpass" programs, none for generic sudo), I suppose I
> can just get the password from an input dialog and then pass it to
> `sudo -S`?
> 

Have a look at the scm workbench code that solves a related problem with git.
Look at the small program that used the askpass interface to call back into the gui to get the username and password that is needed.

https://github.com/barry-scott/scm-workbench

Barry

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