[Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

ik idokan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 11:09:20 CET 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
>
>>> I've had this sort of requirement in the past, specifically when using
>>> libusb (i.e. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the device).
>>
>>
>> You need udev rules that set the user/group permissions for the devices
>> that you use.  You don't need to run as root.
>
>
> I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since
> there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release
> an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work
> otherwise.

Close, I'm using libraries that talk with kernel space, and require
root access to work, and it's not a GUI application.

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