Requesting Superuser

[Jesse Phillips]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:33:18 -0700, BCS wrote:

> 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.

Well, I was hoping for something D specific, but didn't think there would 
be. Phobos has a std.linux package but the docs don't say anything about 
what is in it, I guess I could look at the source.