Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting Lazarus app in Ubuntu to elevate to root and back again

2010-10-11 Thread Andrew Brunner
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Could you suid it to root or to an appropriate group? I've not tried this > for a Pascal/Lazarus program and don't know what the precise rules are for > port usage (i.e. whether the user has to be root or using the root group is > suffici

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting Lazarus app in Ubuntu to elevate to root and back again

2010-10-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Andrew Brunner wrote: I'm needing help to take my Lazarus app, elevate process to root (using GUI prompt like GKSU) and I want to drop back down to the user's level after port binding and listening. Ubuntu has port restrictions for low port numbers. I'm developing a platform that happens to use

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help getting Lazarus app in Ubuntu to elevate to root and back again

2010-10-08 Thread Sven Barth
On 08.10.2010 18:27, Andrew Brunner wrote: I'm needing help to take my Lazarus app, elevate process to root (using GUI prompt like GKSU) and I want to drop back down to the user's level after port binding and listening. Ubuntu has port restrictions for low port numbers. I'm developing a platfor