I've pushed the power module to my public repository if anyone wants to play around with it. It uses SystemD to handle the power management settings I figure that OSX already has SystemPreferences so my implementation is targeting modern Linux distributions.
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 21:33, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Ethan C wrote: > > I would recommend that if you don't use polkit and you don't use a > > setuid binary, that you use sudo. sudo accepts the `-A` flag or the > > `SUDO_ASKPASS` environment variable to specify a graphical program to > > tell sudo the password; examples of programs that do this are > > `ssh-askpass` <https://packages.debian.org/unstable/ssh-askpass>, > > `gnome-ssh-askpass` > > <https://packages.debian.org/sid/ssh-askpass-gnome>, `ksshaskpass` > > <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/ksshaskpass>, and > > `lxqt-openssh-askpass` <https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-openssh-askpass>. > > If you don't want to write an askpass binary using GNUstep-GUI, I'd > > recommend that you depend on `gnome-ssh-askpass` since almost all > > graphical users will have Gtk installed and have a desktop environment > > which properly handles Gtk applications (the desktop environments > > normally do /not/ set `SUDO_ASKPASS` or `SSH_ASKPASS`; you'll need to > > set it yourself when you call `sudo`). > > aha, thanks for the info: I must look into that. Providing an GSAskPass > then is what I need in GAP! > > I will start playing ysing another ask pass and then switch over perhaps. > > Riccardo > >
