Thread: Help needed giving application root access during debugging/development
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Joorin is offline Joorin
2010-05-31 , 06:37
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#7
Originally Posted by anistein View Post
You said what not to do but you didn't give me any workaround for my initial problem.
Life is hard.

You've got at least two suggestions in other comments already. But...

SUID binaries are bad. Use sudo if you really want to run an application as root. Or start the application as root, and run the build process as a normal user.