On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 13.09.2010 13:22, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: >> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:05:26 +0200 >> Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> * the cron is run as nobody and not root (anyone knows how to do this >>> without sudo? no, su does not work it seems) >> >> You can setuid the file and give it a specific owner, it will be run as >> that user. If that's what you're asking. > > That is so not true. setuid is much more obscure and confusing than that > - and most importantly, does not work on shell scripts.
Go with something a bit more powerful than shell scripting? http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html You can call POSIX::setuid() and setgid() to drop permissions. -Dan
