El Miércoles, 24 de Septiembre de 2008, Alex Balashov escribió:
You could set the suid bit on the process so that it would effectively run as root even if invoked by a nonroot user.
Otherwise, yes, it is pretty standard to have to run this stuff as root.
IMHO is much secure to use "sudo". You can allow a user to run an specific command (sipgrep) with root privileges without asking for him own password. Search any example in the web.