I need to call a 3rd party library function with root privileges. I'm not sure how to accomplish this from within Rcpp.
If I was writing an executable, I could call seteuid to elevate privileges before calling the external function, and set the suid bit on the executable. But given that this needs to be done from within a Rcpp Library, I'm not sure how to do this. The last thing I want to do is run R as root or set suid on the R binary. Any help / pointers would be greatly appreciated. thanks Bhaskar
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