Difference between revisions of "Execute as a root"
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The youBot Driver needs access to the raw ethernet device. Under Linux a normal user does not have this access. You can grand this capability to a program by the tool setcap. | The youBot Driver needs access to the raw ethernet device. Under Linux a normal user does not have this access. You can grand this capability to a program by the tool setcap. | ||
| − | To provide a program with raw access to a ethernet device use: | + | To provide a program with raw access to a ethernet device use: |
<pre> sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep ./path_to_your_program | <pre> sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep ./path_to_your_program | ||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 5 February 2015
The youBot Driver needs access to the raw ethernet device. Under Linux a normal user does not have this access. You can grand this capability to a program by the tool setcap.
To provide a program with raw access to a ethernet device use:
sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep ./path_to_your_program
