[SOLVED] launcher for sudo app?

[jmadero]

Hi All,
I'm trying to make a launcher for a program that requires root privileges, how can I do this? I am hoping to get it to function just like the admin stuff functions, where a password prompt comes up. Thanks

[b2bwild]

Use gksu
eg.

gksu nautilus

this will open nautilus with root privilagees

EDIT:
for KDE its kdsu.

[bigtomrodney]

Would integrating kdesu or gksu be of any use to you? You could check to see if the UID=0. If it's not, have the program call itself through gksu/kdesu and exit.

Other than that you could use freedesktop.org's xdg-su from the Portland project. Portland is included in most distros these days as far as I'm aware.

[jmadero]

thanks for the guide, solved