[Tutor] Best way to call a prog that requires root access in linux

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Hi all,

I've had a dig around on the forums about this and it was suggested to
use 'sudo'.
Well I have done this, I need to call tcpdump so I can sniff the
traffic and find the url's, I've modified my sudoers file so that for
this exe only I need no password.
This seems to be the best way since the program only runs the tcpdump
command as root (which incidently has a switch that allows you to drop
root privs once it's started) I want to distribute the program once
it's finished so it means explaining this (sudo bit) in the install
instructions.

Is this a good / bad way to achieve this? 

BTW I use Ubuntu which uses sudo by default however anyone might use
it.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne.

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