I'm needing help to take my Lazarus app, elevate process to root (using GUI prompt like GKSU) and I want to drop back down to the user's level after port binding and listening.
Ubuntu has port restrictions for low port numbers. I'm developing a platform that happens to use ports for HTTP, XMPP, etc. Unfortunately I find myself running Lazarus as root and that is messing up my units as they are saved. I need Lazarus to run my app with debugger, and have the desktop system ask me for my password, attach that elevated id by way of that security mechanism to my debugged app, so I can execute my Bind and Listen socket calls, then detach/remove that elevated status to normal. Anyone with code to do this very thing? I this to be cross-platform so ppl with KDE instead of Gnome need to be considered. Example Code: procedure DebugServices; begin ElevateToRootStatus; // << Gets Ubuntu to prompt for Desktop system to elevate CurrentProcess StartServices; DropRootStatus; end; Under normal circumstances I could just launch gksu in front of my app. But I'm under Lazarus with debugger so I need this badly. Developing ElevateToRootStatus and DropRootStatus is totally unknown how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
