Running applications as root

[Heiko Leberer]

On Sunday 21 April 2002 19:37, Sebastian Schildt wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I currently developing a application, which needs root permissions,
> because it needs raw access to some I/O Ports.
> Is there a way of letting Kdevelop run under a normal user, but execute
> the compiled application as root?


$ chown root:root myprog
$ su
...
# chmod +s myprog

in the program:

setuid(0);

see: man setuid

Heiko

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