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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
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This tutorial is intended for developers with the need for their applications to run with root privileges, without using '''su''' or one of it GUI equivalents, like '''kdesu'''. The steps shown below are not directly related to Qt, indeed with the operative system, so the developer has to have a basic of system administration knowledge. However this five steps are very easy, so there should be no problem to accomplish it. When we have done all this, an authentication dialog will show up just before our aplication to run, after typing the correct root password we are going to have our application running with administrator rights. | This tutorial is intended for developers with the need for their applications to run with root privileges, without using '''su''' or one of it GUI equivalents, like '''kdesu'''. The steps shown below are not directly related to Qt, indeed with the operative system, so the developer has to have a basic of system administration knowledge. However this five steps are very easy, so there should be no problem to accomplish it. When we have done all this, an authentication dialog will show up just before our aplication to run, after typing the correct root password we are going to have our application running with administrator rights. | ||
'''Note:''' This steps has been only tested on | '''Note:''' This steps has been only tested on [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora GNU/Linux], but should work on any other [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat] based distributions. | ||
== Installing the usermode package == | == Installing the usermode package == | ||
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To install this package just execute the following command: | To install this package just execute the following command: | ||
<pre> | |||
yum install usermode | |||
</pre> | |||
== The /etc/security/console.apps/ directory == | == The /etc/security/console.apps/ directory == | ||
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This directory have to contain a file with the same name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary and without extention, for example: | This directory have to contain a file with the same name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary and without extention, for example: | ||
<pre> | |||
/etc/security/console.apps/myapp | /etc/security/console.apps/myapp | ||
</pre> | |||
and the contents: | |||
< | <pre> | ||
USER=root | |||
PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/myapp | PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/myapp | ||
SESSION=true</ | SESSION=true | ||
</pre> | |||
== The /etc/pam.d/ directory == | == The /etc/pam.d/ directory == | ||
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This directory also have to contain a file with the same name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary, without extention and with the following content: | This directory also have to contain a file with the same name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary, without extention and with the following content: | ||
File | |||
<pre> | |||
/etc/pam.d/myapp | /etc/pam.d/myapp | ||
</pre> | |||
Content: | |||
<code>#%PAM-1.0 | <code> | ||
#%PAM-1.0 | |||
auth include config-util | auth include config-util | ||
account include config-util | account include config-util | ||
session include config-util</code> | session include config-util | ||
</code> | |||
== Linking == | == Linking == | ||
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Now we have to create a symlink with the name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary and linked to the consolehelper program: | Now we have to create a symlink with the name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary and linked to the consolehelper program: | ||
<pre> | |||
ln -fs /usr/bin/consolehelper /usr/bin/myapp | ln -fs /usr/bin/consolehelper /usr/bin/myapp | ||
</pre> | |||
'''Note:''' The real binary of our application have to be placed at /usr/sbin/ directory. | '''Note:''' The real binary of our application have to be placed at /usr/sbin/ directory. | ||
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This .desktop file could look like this: | This .desktop file could look like this: | ||
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[Desktop Entry] | |||
Categories=System | Categories=System | ||
Exec=/usr/bin/myapp | Exec=/usr/bin/myapp | ||
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Terminal=false | Terminal=false | ||
Type=Application | Type=Application | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:08, 21 August 2016
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Introduction
This tutorial is intended for developers with the need for their applications to run with root privileges, without using su or one of it GUI equivalents, like kdesu. The steps shown below are not directly related to Qt, indeed with the operative system, so the developer has to have a basic of system administration knowledge. However this five steps are very easy, so there should be no problem to accomplish it. When we have done all this, an authentication dialog will show up just before our aplication to run, after typing the correct root password we are going to have our application running with administrator rights.
Note: This steps has been only tested on Fedora GNU/Linux, but should work on any other Red Hat based distributions.
Installing the usermode package
The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.
To install this package just execute the following command:
yum install usermode
The /etc/security/console.apps/ directory
This directory have to contain a file with the same name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary and without extention, for example:
/etc/security/console.apps/myapp
and the contents:
USER=root PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/myapp SESSION=true
The /etc/pam.d/ directory
This directory also have to contain a file with the same name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary, without extention and with the following content:
File
/etc/pam.d/myapp
Content:
#%PAM-1.0
auth include config-util
account include config-util
session include config-util
Linking
Now we have to create a symlink with the name (has to be lowercase) of our application binary and linked to the consolehelper program:
ln -fs /usr/bin/consolehelper /usr/bin/myapp
Note: The real binary of our application have to be placed at /usr/sbin/ directory.
The .desktop file
The last is concerned with the .desktop file of our application, that have to point to the link we create in the previous step insted of the real binay.
This .desktop file could look like this:
[Desktop Entry] Categories=System Exec=/usr/bin/myapp GenericName[en_US]=My App GenericName=My App Icon=myapp Name[en_US]=MyApp Name=MyApp StartupNotify=true Terminal=false Type=Application