xdg-su — run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root password
xdg-su
[-s
] [-x
] user
command
xdg-su
{ --help
| --manual
| --version
}
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
.
You can create an empty "xdg-sudo" file in /etc to use sudo as default to override default "su" mechanism and can avoid using "-s" option.
user
command
as
user
. The default is to run as root.
-s
command
via sudo
-x
command
via su. If sudo is default.
--help
--manual
--version