Hi; Solved the problem with a forgotten adjustment. I am putting it on the mailing list in case anyone else has the same problem with zenity. On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 13:04 -0500, William Case wrote: > Thanks Stefano; > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 11:50 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > [snip] > > > #! /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. For zenity to work with sudo, the sudoers file defaults have to be altered. At least they do on my version in Fedora. Go to root; visudo; scroll down to Defaults. Comment out 'Defaults requiretty' so that it becomes # Defaults requiretty Save and sudo now works with zenity. I had forgotten this from install to new install. Why this is necessary is beyond me. If, anyone has an explanation I would appreciate reading it. There should be a clear warning about the possible need to configure the sudoers file in any or all of the 'man zenity', gnome zenity or the Zenity Manual Page. I spent several hours on this and wasted other people's time until I came across some old notes reminding me. -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
