I believe I asked a similar question to this earlier but didn't get any responses and didn't really understand what I was asking, so I thought I'd give it another shot.

I'd like to use TPB (http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/) on my IBM laptop, but I'm running into some permissions problems. If tpb is started as a user, it doesn't have access to /dev/nvram and can't work. If it's started as root, all its commands (such as opening new terminal windows) are run as root, which isn't what I'm looking for either. The best solution seems to be giving a user access to read /dev/nvram. How would I go about doing this, and are there any security issues involved with doing this?