Tarun Dua wrote: > If all you want is a unpriviged user to run a > program with > root permissions.(Warning: Security implications) > Then change ownership to root and set the setuid bit > of the program > on root shell as > #chown root.root <yourprogram> > #chmod 4755 <yourprogram> > > And your program should start with setting owner's > ID while running the > program to initially start the userland functions. > well as i replied in other mail this i had done in C but i need to call this function from a java program and there is no mention abt how to use this setuid and other things in java. regarding security i guess sometimes one need to access resources like hardware and i don't know how one will achieve that without doing this as even some linux programs use this feature
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