SuperUser permission for the Driver??

[shivaprasad javali]

I am new to programming on Linux, I just searched for Setuid() and found
that it sets the effective userid of my program to the userid I specify. So
can I just call setuid() in my program when I need superuser privileges and
have those privileges. To what part of my program are those privileges
confined to?

Thanks
Shivaprasad

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, James Cameron <quozl at us.netrek.org> wrote:

> So it is root UID you need for a user-space program, not a kernel
> driver, I see.  Have you considered setuid?
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