Requesting Superuser

[BCS]

Jesse Phillips wrote:
> As a Linux programmer it can be important to have a program run with 
> superuser privileges. I am trying to figure out the best way to either 
> become a super user by asking for a password, or simply checking if it is 
> run as a superuser.
> 
> I have been looking at how to do this in C and found information on suser
> () which seems to be for FreeBSD.
> http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=9&topic=suser
> 
> I was also reading some stuff on secure programming which said not to use 
> system() because it invokes the shell, that's fine but is it really a 
> problem?
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/PUIS3_chap16/index1.html
> 
> Any good links or search queries would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jesse Phillips


Are you looking for D specific stuff? Under Unix I would expect that 
superuser related stuff will be the same as under C. As such I expect 
that this NG wouldn't have any specific expertices in that. You might 
get lucky and find someone who knowns (these guys have quite a range of 
knowledge) but here is not the first place I'd look.