Or you can google the setuid bit. This would allow your application to run as root without having to be logged in as root.
On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 12:10:31 PM UTC-5, Nic Cyn wrote: > > You are not really asking the right question (its ok you are new to this). > However the problem you have really has nothing to do with the Beaglebone > Black - it is really a Linux issue and any solution to it would be common > to any Linux system. > > Try googling something like "*linux auto run program on boot as root*" > and you will find a lot of help. > > On Monday, 2 February 2015 14:20:41 UTC, Julian Gold wrote: >> >> We have a Revision C board running debian, and wish to use a couple of >> the GPIO channels from within the (C++) software we are developing. This >> requires writing to the "file" /sys/class/gpio/export, but this requires >> root permission. In bash I can just "sudo su", but this is surely not going >> to work from C++? >> >> Presumably if I logged in as root and ran my code, the permissions would >> be correct. However the board boots to the desktop with "debian" as the >> default user. Can this be changed to root and how? >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
