On date Saturday 2007-12-22 07:18:51 -0500, William Case gnomed: > Thanks Daniel and Olav; > > On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 19:28 +1000, Daniel James wrote: > > You will probably need to use sudo -S > > > > sudo will not read from stdin by default.. > > > Yes. My starting script had sudo -S. My apologies, I sent a copy of a > version of my script written at the height of frustration. Here is my > problem more accurately. The following code works from the command line > "]$ sh RootBrowse" but fails to work from the nautilus-scripts menu. > > #! /bin/bash > # Open nautilus as root > # file name: RootBrowse > > sudo -K > zenity --entry \ > --title="Browse files as root" \ > --text="Enter your user _password:" \ > --entry-text "" \ > --hide-text | sudo -S nautilus --no-desktop --browser 1>/dev/null > 2>/dev/null > > # End This works fine here, both from the commandline and launching it as a nautilus script. > That is; the zenity entry window pops up but after the correct password > is entered nothing further seems to happen. From the command line in > contrast, the root browser opens after the correct password is entered > in the popup entry window. > > > > > > > Any help, advice or explanations will be gratefully received. Just a faint suggestion, you may try to specify the complete path of every command (e.g. sudo -> /usr/bin/sudo), especially in the case there is already a script named "sudo" in the scripts directory. HTH, regards. -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
