This is what the Setuid bit is for. It elevates the privileges of the 
executing user to the level of the owner. With chmod, with a 4 in the first 
of four columns. The man page of course has a lot more information.

You can't do this with some scripting languages though since they disable it 
for security. You can, however, use a very simple c wrapper if it doesn't 
allow it.

-Jeff

On Monday 14 February 2005 3:12 pm, Alfonso Lopez wrote:
> I have a script that sets up my wireless connection for me, using a
> variety of root only commands. I would like to have my users be able to
> run it.  Changing the permissions to allow executions doesn't do the
> trick since the script calls ifconfig/iwconfig etc.
>
> Help?
> Alfonso Lopez
>
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