Can AIR apps in sudo/admin mode?

Will AIR for linux support running AIR apps in sudo mode?
Meaning, will it be able to modify a setting that requires the app
to run in sudo mode?
If not, will there be an api to check if the app in running
with sudo or admin privileges. This would also be great for Windows
and Mac versions.

So what if the application needs to write to a config file
that require sudo user? How do we manage that task? will the AIR
runtime prompt the user to enter a sudo password or will it throw a
file access error?
I think it would be easier for AIR to prompt the user for
sudo access so the developer would not have to worry about the sudo
access.

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Thanks kglad.com. I will try this and see if it works. Can you check my code a bit to see if it's right?
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Thanks for your reply, Chris. We're working around these problems by deploying the Air runtime + the application separately using an administration tool, which is fine for now.
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