Hi, I'm not sure this is the answer you are looking for, but, _if_ you require "root" permissions for your application to work, one of the possible was would be to use one of the existing wrappers to start your application from the .desktop file. I'm not sure which one is used by Fedora, but I was a bit fond of 'xdg-su' in another distribution I regularly use. To use with xdg-su (a part of xdg-utils ??) would be something like (in the desktop file): Exec: xdg-su -c "/usr/bin/app" This would ask the user for root password when launching the application. Though I suspect you are looking for something else. NM On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 15:07 -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: > Could someone please point me to where/how to grant my python > application, installed with a .desktop file into gnome, permission to > talk to certain devices on USB? > > > When I run the application from the command line with sudo, usb > communication works, but when I run from the gnome application menu, > no luck. > > > What is the best practice for granting these types of permissions when > an application is installed and launched with a .desktop file? > > > Thanks -- packaging mailing list packaging(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions to prompt the user for their password with a visual sudo tool. Fortunately, it looks like I can bypass sudo requirements, for this project, if my rpm can install two files (one is a .sh) into /etc/udev/ Is the right way to do this using %files in my spec? -- packaging mailing list packaging(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging