Comment 12 for bug 716595

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Fixed upstream. I added a new method

def attach_root_command_outputs(report, command_map):
    '''Execute multiple commands as root and put their outputs into report.

    command_map is a keyname -> 'shell command' dictionary with the commands to
    run. They are all run through /bin/sh, so you need to take care of shell
    escaping yourself. To include stderr output of a command, end it with
    "2>&1".

    Just like root_command_output() this will use gksu, kdesudo, or sudo for
    gaining root privileges, depending on the running desktop environment.

    This is preferrable to using root_command_output() multiple times, as that
    will ask for the password every time.
    '''