<div>Here is what I want to do. </div>
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<div>VM = VMWare Server</div>
<div>VM Inside = Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit</div>
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<div>I want to install Websphere 7 inside the VM.</div>
<div>Then I want to install the MyEclipse IDE.</div>
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<div>Then I want to kick start the WebSphere server from inside the IDE (it does this anyways).</div>
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<div>Once it is all up and runing I plan to distribute the VM to our developers, so we dont have to worry about configuration of IDE's to new folks.</div>
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<div>If this can be accomplished as a reg user, I am all for it.</div>
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<div>I thougt that if I do this as superuser then it might be easy to install once and every one gets it.</div>
<div>What equivalnce I am looking for is, in Windoze world the LAN admin installs Word as an admin and the next thing you know all users who</div>
<div>login to that box get Word as an application and thats what I am trying to accomplish.</div>
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<div>-Narahari<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 14:34 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br></div>
<div class="im">> How do I run a few scripts like my IDE launcher, the Websphere server<br>> etc., to run as sudo aka root without prompting me for the password<br>> each time ?<br><br></div>As Mike W. pointed out, there is little need to run such things as the<br>
superuser.<br><br>If you need to start a dæmon that needs to listen on a privileged port,<br>there are a few ways that you can do this. You can grant the approriate<br>capability to the user account that runs the software (or to the<br>
software itself, using filesystem capabilities), though this is not a<br>universally supported method of operation (why, I'm not sure).<br><br>The other means would be to have a small (and I mean *tiny*) program<br>that runs setuid root and does ABSOLUTELY nothing other than to acquire<br>
the listening socket, drop root privileges permanently, and then exec<br>the target program. That might require a patch to the target program so<br>that it can take the listening socket file descriptor either on a<br>well-known file descriptor or via a command line option that can pass in<br>
the fd number.<br><br>There are more clever means to do these sorts of things, as well. They<br>are, however, left as an exercise to the reader.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Also how do you start any gui app minimized, I need to run VMWare<br>> tools as root and minimized.<br><br></div>That depends on the toolkit that the program in question is built to run<br>with. For GTK+ based software, I am not aware of any such<br>
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