su

This library comes from the gksu application. It provides a simple API to use su and sudo in applications that need to execute tasks as an other user. It provides X authentication facilities for running applications in an X session.

gksu is a GTK+ front end for /bin/su. gksu supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su front end. It is useful for menu items or other graphical applications that need to ask the user's password to run as another user.

Simple sudo replacement utility based on OpenBSD's doas.

salaf project