I hope this isn't and entirely stupid question, but it would be worth it to get the answer.

Is there a way to give a terminal root permissions from a limited access account in linux so i can use all of the switches for nmap? I can run many of them, but some of the switches i want to use require me to run nmap with root permissions. Or if there is an even easier way of going about this that would be great.

I browsed over to /usr/bin/nmap hopeing to get a prompt asking me for the root password after i double-clicked it, but nothing opens up.

Thanks in advance.

~FrWk