elevate

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elevate currently only works for OS X and Windows. The Windows support currently uses a Visual Basic script that ends up displaying a confusing prompt and is generally hoaky - it will be replaced by a C++ program that does the same thing but with a better prompt.

On OS X, it uses cocoasudo from here - https://github.com/getlantern/cocoasudo, forked from https://github.com/kalikaneko/cocoasudo to explicitly support OSX 10.6.

On Windows, it uses elevate from here - http://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/. The source code lives in elevate-1.3.0/src and can be built from a Visual Studio command line by running nmake elevat.mak. The elevate makefile has been modified from the original to 1. build as a windows GUI app instead of a console app, 2. always build as 32 bit and 3. statically link the runtime. elevate.c was modified to include a WinMain function.

Documentation

Overview

package elevate provides support for executing commands with elevated privileges.

Index

• func Command(name string, args ...string) *exec.Cmd
• type CommandBuilder
  • func WithIcon(icon string) *CommandBuilder
  • func WithPrompt(prompt string) *CommandBuilder
  • func (b *CommandBuilder) Command(name string, args ...string) *exec.Cmd
  • func (b *CommandBuilder) WithIcon(icon string) *CommandBuilder
  • func (b *CommandBuilder) WithPrompt(prompt string) *CommandBuilder

Functions

func Command

func Command(name string, args ...string) *exec.Cmd

Command is like exec.Command, except that it runs the given command with elevated privileges.

Types

type CommandBuilder

type CommandBuilder struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

func WithIcon

func WithIcon(icon string) *CommandBuilder

func WithPrompt

func WithPrompt(prompt string) *CommandBuilder

func (*CommandBuilder) Command

func (b *CommandBuilder) Command(name string, args ...string) *exec.Cmd

func (*CommandBuilder) WithIcon

func (b *CommandBuilder) WithIcon(icon string) *CommandBuilder

func (*CommandBuilder) WithPrompt

func (b *CommandBuilder) WithPrompt(prompt string) *CommandBuilder