[ros-users] Running commands as SuperUser

Tully Foote tfoote at willowgarage.com
Wed Jun 2 20:57:06 UTC 2010


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 at 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 <ruben.smits at mech.kuleuven.be>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
> >
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