It's a little bit of both.  It needs to be chown root, and it needs to be 
chmod u+s.

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ted Gervais wrote:

> 
> Recently there was a note on what to enter when you wanted to get certain 
> things to work similar to being signed in as ROOT.
> 
> Something to do with 'chmod'  and the use of 'S'.  
> 
> What I am trying to do  is invoke a viewer application that needs me to be 
> logged in as root.  HOwever, with this use of chmod and some magic here, I 
> got things to wrok very nicely while just logged in as a user.
> 
> What the devil was that 'chmod' command again?  Or was chown??
> 
> 



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