Best way to gain root privileges

[GSO]

> Come to think of it, I would first consider creating a 'cctv' user that owns
> the cameras and storage directories, and files and only do anything as root
> if absolutely necessary.
>

You can run 'sudo -g [group] ...', so no need to go near root.

>
> Running any kind of script sudo'd is a bad idea, it's very very hard
> (in many cases impossible) to do securely. Root permissions in general
> should only be used for what they're needed for and nothing else (that
> means getting the permission, doing the stuff that needs to be done as
> root, and then returning back to normal privs), anything else is just
> asking for trouble.
>

If you can do what you need to do with a dedicated group for the
task/program (as above) then hopefully this would not be such an
insecure approach?  Better than asking for the admin. login possibly
also?