Running netbeans project with root permissions

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Professor - 15 Apr 2008 20:45 GMT

I am working on a project in netbeans that needs to execute with root
permissions. Is there a way to configure the project to execute and/or
debug as a different user?

Ubuntu 8.04 beta
Netbeans 6.0.1

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Lew - 16 Apr 2008 06:21 GMT

> I am working on a project in netbeans that needs to execute with root
> permissions. Is there a way to configure the project to execute and/or
> debug as a different user?
>
> Ubuntu 8.04 beta
> Netbeans 6.0.1

login or sudo as the desired user. I sometimes start "netbeans &" from the
command line as root. It's not actually a good idea.

Java truly is not a language designed for programs to run as root user.

I see that you're actually asking a deeper question, how to get NetBeans,
running as a normal user, to spawn a test run logged in as root. I don't
think NB does that directly, though I could be ignorant of how it does. As a
workaround, set up a .sh file to run the program as a Java application. Make
it setuid root and executable, and execute it rather than the program.

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Professor - 16 Apr 2008 13:34 GMT

> > I am working on a project in netbeans that needs to execute with root
> > permissions. Is there a way to configure the project to execute and/or
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> Lew

Thanks for the reply. I thought about using a script, but I'm also not
sure how to get netbeans to execute a script instead of a program when
selecting run (I doubt debugging would work at all through this
method). It sounds like i'll just have to run as root, The main reason
I don't want to run as root is I'm afraid all my config files will
then have root privileges and I won't be able to run netbeans as
anything but root next time. Oh well...

thanks again
Ted

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CK - 17 Apr 2008 20:29 GMT

*snip*

>Thanks for the reply. I thought about using a script, but I'm also not
>sure how to get netbeans to execute a script instead of a program when
>selecting run (I doubt debugging would work at all through this
>method).

Another solution, just develop in NetBeans, then build your project
and then execute a shell script from the console sudoing to root?

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Lew - 18 Apr 2008 12:46 GMT

> Thanks for the reply. I thought about using a script, but I'm also not
> sure how to get netbeans to execute a script instead of a program when
> selecting run

<http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html>

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