On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Lee Einer wrote:
> Writing the script was no biggie, nor was making it executable or
> creating the desktop icon. The hitch in the giddyup is that the mount
> command must be run as root, and whereas that is no problem if invoking
> the script from a terminal by its pathname, I have no idea how to set it
> up so that I get a prompt for root password when running the script with
> an icon. Putting "su" into the script is no good, it seems, as the su
> command must be run from a terminal, and Linux is fetishistic enough in
> its security measures that it ignores attempts to suid a shell script.
Try sudo.
Or make it so it can be mounted with root privileges. Such as having
correct access to mount point, etc.
Jeremy C. Reed
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