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

[waldo kitty]

On 2/27/2012 05:11, Sven Barth wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I already managed the following some time ago for a scanner that was not
> supported by SANE:
> * setup a Windows VM in QEMU
> * tell QEMU to pass the scanner to the VM
>
> If I now started the VM I became a "permission denied" error when it tried to
> open the corresponding dev node. Now I simply changed (at that time without udev
> rules, because they somehow didn't work as I wanted them to) the group of the
> corresponding device file (/dev/usb/{bus}/{device}) to a group my user is part
> of and Tada! it worked. So no, you don't need Root access for an unrecognized
> device.

why not just add your user(s) to that group the device was in? this would/should 
give the same access capabilities... or am i missing something else?