Not require sudo for running specific application as root

[C de-Avillez]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 11:28 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A user needs to run a specific application as root. I have finally
> > convinced him not to run the whole desktop as root, but now he must
> > precede the command to run the application with "sudo -i".
> 
> Sounds like this is what you guys need:
> 
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-bsd-linux-setuid-file/

Setting a programme 'setuid' to root is an extreme action, and should
not be done without a full analysis of the risks.

Instead, perhaps it would be enough to:

(1) set /etc/sudoers to allow the user to run this application without a
password;
(2) creating a menu item to launch it as'gksu -S /path/to/application' 

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