XDG-SU(1)

NAME
xdg-su - run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root password

SYNOPSIS

xdg-su [-u user] -c command

xdg-su {--help --manual --version}

DESCRIPTION

xdg-su provides a graphical dialog that prompts the user for a password to run command as user or as root if no user was specified.

xdg-su is for use inside a desktop session only.

xdg-su discards any stdout and stderr output from command.

OPTIONS

-u user
    run command as user. The default is to run as root.

--help
    Show command synopsis.

--manual
    Show this manualpage.

--version
    Show the xdg-utils version information.

EXIT CODES

An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

1   Error in command line syntax.

2   One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

3   A required tool could not be found.

4   The action failed.

SEE ALSO

su(1)

EXAMPLES

xdg-su -u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"

Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root permissions.

AUTHOR
Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White.
<kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
<jwhite@codeweavers.com>