Is the PolicyKit http://live.gnome.org/PolicyKit widget accessible from PyGTK (am using pygtk2 v2.16, Gtk v2.18.9, on RHEL6). If not anyone got any ideas on the best way to gain root privileges in a prog. Ta, G. gmotion PyGTK desktop GUI for Motion (software motion detector) http://code.google.com/p/gmotion/