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[Sandsound]

Can someone please tell me why this doesn't work :

os.system('gksudo "cp -f /home/sandie/Desktop/folder/* /home/sandie/Desktop"')

I can do this :

os.system("cp -f /home/sandie/Desktop/folder/* /home/sandie/Desktop")
but get a "cp: cannot stat" error when I include gksudo ?

[NoaHall]

Why use gksudo for a cli command?

[sisco311]

os.system("gksudo \"bash -c 'cp -f /source/dir/* /dest/dir'\"")

in karmic you can use pkexec (policykit):


os.system("pkexec cp -f /source/dir/* /dest/dir")

it works much better with cli commands than gksu.

[juancarlospaco]

import os
os.system("gksudo \"xterm -e 'cp -f /source/dir/* /dest/dir'\"")

[Sandsound]

Why use gksudo for a cli command?

It's a Python program with a gui and I don't want the whole program to run as root only the things that require it.

[Sandsound]

os.system("gksudo \"bash -c 'cp -f /source/dir/* /dest/dir'\"")

in karmic you can use pkexec (policykit):


os.system("pkexec cp -f /source/dir/* /dest/dir")

it works much better with cli commands than gksu.

thanks, but I kind'a like the minimalistic way gksudo ask for authorization.
Does pkexec behave like gksudo ? (if i do a gksudo it remember the authorization and the next gksudo will not prompt for password).

[Sandsound]

import os
os.system("gksudo \"xterm -e 'cp -f /source/dir/* /dest/dir'\"")

I did have "import os" but the xterm did the trick.

Thanks :-D