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Quote:

Originally Posted by meShell (Post 1409551)

setuid( 0 )

It is possible, I am using this "helper" to start my "vpnc" with a GUI-Button, because I did not get a response and did not find any "recommended way to run as privileged" via Sailfis-App.

So there are 3 steps.

compile helper program
change owner to root:root
change permissions to 4755

Example (added example with 2 commands seperated by "&&"):

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <unistd.h>



int main()

{

   setuid( 0 );

   system( "/usr/sbin/vpnc && /sbin/ip route add xxx.xxx.x.0/24 dev tun0);



   return 0;

}

compiled it with gcc on the phone like this:

Code:

gcc vpnc-helper.c -o vpnc-helper

devel-su

chown root:root vpnc-helper

chmod 4755 vpnc-helper

I have a question, can we do something similar to run command as USER under root? For example, the dbus command I should run as user, but I now under root.
in N9 it was simple, devel-su user -c "comnand" and it didn't ask about password.
Can we do something similar on Jolla?
thanks