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Broken on "obscure" platforms (such as NixOS) #77

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Synthetica9 opened this issue Nov 2, 2018 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #123
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Broken on "obscure" platforms (such as NixOS) #77

Synthetica9 opened this issue Nov 2, 2018 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #123

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@Synthetica9
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sudo-prompt/index.js

Line 125 in 52f82d0

var paths = ['/usr/bin/kdesudo', '/usr/bin/pkexec'];

This assumes you know the exact location of the pkexec/kdesudo binary. This isn't always the case, for example on my (NixOS) system:

$ which pkexec
/run/wrappers/bin/pkexec

Would it be possible to use the environment to get the location of these executables?
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@jorangreef
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Thanks for pointing this out.

How would you go about getting the location from the environment? Using which? Any other suggestions would be welcome and then I'll work on a patch.

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which would certainly be an option. I don't know if there are any node-specific ways of doing this the neatly.

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Please try out this commit (not yet published to npm): 0e933b7

Let me know if that fixes it.

@jorangreef jorangreef reopened this Dec 10, 2018
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It looks like it's somewhat fixed, but I get "Error: User did not grant permission." without any prompt.

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It looks like NixOS does things differently with pkexec then, even once we've located the unusual bin path. I am sorry I don't have NixOS available to test. I'm going to revert the which commit until we know for sure and close this out, but if you can figure it out, please let me know.

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nh2 commented Apr 30, 2021

There is a new PR at #123 -- it would be great if you could take a look!

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Fix "Unable to find pkexec or kdesudo" error on NixOS jul1u5/sudo-prompt
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