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[From: Johan Hedberg]

Hi,

On Wed, May 31, 2006, Ade Bamigboye wrote:
> To fully make use of the BlueZ stack, an application needs to run as 
> root on the N770. 
> 
> Is there an easy way to make an application always run as "root" ?

Currently no. However, (AFAIK) the 2006 OS release will allow you to 
install packages with root privileges.

> Is there an alternative for applications to access functions within 
> the SDP without running as root.

Are you talking about server or client side SDP functionality? Enabling 
sdpd on the current SW releases requires root, but creating new local 
service records or performing client side operations should be possible
without root. (btw, the 2006 OS release will have sdpd running by 
default so that problem will be solved there).

Johan