On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:15:02AM +0100, Peter Hanusiak wrote:
> > su xxx -c "/path/to/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond start"
>
> Yes it works perfectly. Thank you. But now I have issue with authdaemond
> processes. They start only when the user which owns them has in
> /etc/passwd as shell /bin/bash . When I change it to /bin/true it does
> not work. Is it possible to start it as user which don't have a shell?
Under FreeBSD, there is a '-m' option to su which makes the login happen as
_your_ shell rather than the account's shell. I don't know about other OSes.
Otherwise, write a C program which just calls
setgid(n);
setuid(m);
execl("/path/to/authdaemond", "authdaemond", "start", 0);
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