You can use sudo or another suid-root wrapper. Search the binaries in your favorite search engine. Install it.
with `/usr/local/bin/visudo` you can modify your sudoers file, located in /etc/sudoers.
A line for user X would be somthing like
X ALL=<name_of_prog_to_run> ALL
if your special user is fully trusted and you care about security policies you might allow him everything what root can by typing
X ALL=(root) ALL
now he can execute everything as root. (bad idea!)
your user X starts a sudo-command via `sudo command` and is prompted for his password.
Thats a quick primer - hope it'll help you! regards
chenn
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