Re: root privileges

If you want root privileges for your app then set the suid bit, i.e "chmod +s 
<your app>". I don't know if it's possible to give only certain parts of the 
program root privileges.

Ben Hague

On Wednesday 12 March 2003  9:58 am, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I guess there is a way to get root privileges to run my app. Well, only my
> application or, even better, perform something inside my application
> (read/write on IO ports to get/set can registers) as I were root, while it
> was launched as an ordinary user.
> How to do that?
> Or, anyway, what is the correct procedure to do that, provided the
> application is to drive an electronic machinery, so that prompts for
> passwords are a-no-so-good-solution...
>
> TIA
> Batman
>
>
>
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