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Sure, though I advise against it. The following C program can do that:
As seen in:
This will allow anyone in group
sudo
to execute any command as root. You may change the group to something else to control who exactly can run the program (you cannot change the user of the program).If there’s some specific command you want to run, it’s better to hard-code it or configure
sudo
to allow execution of that command without password.