Alexis, Another way in which we did this on the PR2 in the past was to use roslaunch's remote launching capability to connect to a machine definition of root@hostname http://www.ros.org/wiki/roslaunch/XML/machine and then we setup the ssh keys to allow access. Tully On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Ruben Smits wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 22:28:19 Alexis Cheng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a couple of source files that require super user privilege. Is it > > possible to run commands such as rosrun as super user? I tried sudo > rosrun > > ... and it returns with rosrun: command not found. Has anybody ran into > > this issue, and if so how did you get around it? Thanks for your > > attention. > > We got around the problem by becoming root using "sudo su", sourcing the > setup.sh file (or any other way to set up the ROS environment for the root > user), and executing rosrun as root. > > Ruben > > > > Regards, > > Alexis Cheng > > Electrical Engineering > > University of British Columbia > > > > ________________________________ > > 30 days of prizes: Hotmail makes your day easier! Enter > > now > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Tully Foote Systems Engineer Willow Garage, Inc. tfoote@willowgarage.com (650) 475-2827