Question

I’m building my first sizable Linux program that I plan on uploading to the Ubuntu Software Center, and I’ve run into a problem: I assumed calling something like system("sudo mkdir /opt/test"); in a graphical program would automatically bring up the little dialog that asks for the root password, but it doesn’t. I get the error: “sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified”

So is my assumption that this is handled automatically when the user doesn’t have access to a terminal incorrect? And if so, what is the default “askpass” program for Ubuntu, and how might I call it? Can I use gksudo?

I would really appreciate some help. Thanks!

Answer 1

I figured it out. You can use gksudo for this, and format the command to meet your needs.

system("gksudo mkdir testdir");