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TurtleBot also runs roslaunch from an upstart script using setuidgid. Check out turtlebot-start here. The one caveat with setuidgid is that it doesn't pass in the user's groups, so any devices which the user should be able to use need to either be owned by that user or have the appropriate global permissions.

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