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When you try to do a privileged systemd operation without the privilege, you get an escalation prompt: $ systemctl stop docker ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ==== ...
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matthewsnyder
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2024-04-10T20:30:32Z (7 months ago)
Privilege escalation from Python like from systemd
When you try to do a privileged systemd operation without the privilege, you get an escalation prompt: ``` $ systemctl stop docker ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ==== Authentication is required to stop 'docker.service'. Authenticating as: [MY USER NAME] Password: ``` I've seen some other programs do this as well (don't recall which), so it seems like not a systemd-specific thing. I want to write a Python program that occasionally does privileged things. *Most of the time* it does not do privileged things, so I don't want to tell users to run my program with sudo. Instead I want to ask for the escalation as needed, like `systemctl` does. Is it possible in Python?