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enable-tor: Use pkexec to run command as root when gksu and kdesu are not available.

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gksu is no longer in debian, even stable

kdesu in debian is not installed in PATH any longer, though the executable
is still present under /usr/lib

pkexec is packagekit's replacement for those older commands.
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Joey Hess 2019-09-30 15:19:01 -04:00
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@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ git-annex (7.20190913) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* adjust --lock: This enters an adjusted branch where files are locked.
* remotedaemon: Don't list --stop in help since it's not supported.
* enable-tor: Run kdesu with -c option.
* enable-tor: Use pkexec to run command as root when gksu and kdesu are not
available.
-- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:11:19 -0400

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Utility/Su.hs
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@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ mkSuCommand cmd ps = firstM (\(SuCommand _ p _) -> inPath p) =<< selectcmds
[Param shellcmd]
, SuCommand (MayPromptPassword SomePassword) "kdesu"
[Param "-c", Param shellcmd]
, SuCommand (MayPromptPassword SomePassword) "pkexec"
([Param cmd] ++ ps)
-- Available in Debian's menu package; knows about lots of
-- ways to gain root.
, SuCommand (MayPromptPassword SomePassword) "su-to-root"