Re: [Tutor] Best way to call a prog that requires root access in linux

2007-01-05 Thread Christopher Arndt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I want to distribute the program once > it's finished so it means explaining this (sudo bit) in the install > instructions. > > Is this a good / bad way to achieve this? Yes, the user should be always made aware, if he is to run something as root. Requiring him to co

Re: [Tutor] Best way to call a prog that requires root access in linux

2007-01-05 Thread Alan Gauld
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I've had a dig around on the forums about this and it was suggested > to > use 'sudo'. sudo is the best way to run applications with a different access level. Since this is an OS thing usinbg sudo is the right solution IMHO. If you ever want to port your code to XP

[Tutor] Best way to call a prog that requires root access in linux

2007-01-05 Thread pytutor . 20 . 247ob
Hi all, I've had a dig around on the forums about this and it was suggested to use 'sudo'. Well I have done this, I need to call tcpdump so I can sniff the traffic and find the url's, I've modified my sudoers file so that for this exe only I need no password. This seems to be the best way since th