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in reply to Executing Root Commands from user level

Your solution is sudo !
(I tend to use it instead of suidperl)
Whatever the language you use for your prog (shell,Perl,C)
You can even allow some users to execute some commands as root without entering root passwd
(a LOT safer to my mind).


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