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Amith KK
Asked: 2012-02-18 04:07:14 +0800 CST

Making Existing Userlevel program root?

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Is it possible to give root to an already running application which runs at userspace?

Like x program is running, I did some unsaveable work on x program, But it needs root to complete. I do not want to restart the x program.

command-line root 11.10

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  1. Best Answer

    No.

    What you have to do is save the work somewhere you can write to, e.g. /tmp, exit the program, run the program with sudo x, and read the data from /tmp.

    Or, in vi or vim, you can do :w | sudo tee root-writeable-file

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