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I have a NetBeans project that listens for snmp traps. This works just fine in non-secure OSs like Windows, but on my Mac (or Linux), you need root privileges to connect to a low-numbered port when I try to debug it. I can run my whole project as root using sudo, but this screws up all the permissions in my .netbeans file, and it is somewhat dangerous to do. So I need a way of telling NetBeans (as me) to run the project as root by giving the sudo password when it is launched. I think this is an important feature.
reassigning to projects (maybe new "run as administrator" feature?)
"Run as administrator" would solve this for sure. This is an important issue if you run on a non-Windows platform. Of course, Windows has no security, so it is a moot issue there, you can open any port. By the way, my project needed to receive snmp traps which arrive on a low-numbered port.
Change of default owner.
Probably too uncommon to merit any special UI treatment; assuming you are using an Ant-based Java SE project, you can just override -init-macrodef-java in build.xml to use <exec executable="sudo" ...> rather than <java fork="true" ...>. Better addressed via http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansUserFAQ or stackoverflow.com, I think.