root permissions

wass29 · 05-07-2004, 04:01 PM

Here is what I'm trying to do I have a script that will mount a directory from another computer. I had to use root permissions to make that happen but I do not run my machine as root. What I want to do is run a particular program like 'Nautilus' with root permissions. So I would like to run some kind of command from my menu that will call up Nautilus with user rights. Does this make any sense?

Let me know thatnks

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Thanks Wass

ringwraith · 05-07-2004, 04:12 PM

Read up on suid.... having said that, running apps that way is very dangerous and not recommended.

win32sux · 05-08-2004, 01:06 PM

here's a link, but as ringwraith said, it's VERY DANGEROUS AND NOT RECOMMENDED to do what you're planing on doing...

http://www.geocities.com/tipsforlinux/articles/028.html

wass29 · 05-10-2004, 10:58 AM

Thanks for the suggestions I played around with the SUID bit for a while but didn't want to write a script to call the program with all of the little switches and other crap that it needed. So I changed the login permissions on my network share script and that fixed my problem.