Thanks Walker. I have looked at setuid and it appears to be the best way to go. I don't quite get it though. My code is built by netbeans, so I have to chmod +s the exe, then call setuid( x ) in the code? What is x?
On Monday, 2 February 2015 18:57:27 UTC, Walker Archer wrote: > > 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.
