On Friday September 19 2008 03:40:53 am Jan Dvorak wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 18:58:31 Chris Buxton wrote: > > I'm not familiar with 'runas' for Linux. (There's a Windows command of > > that name...) On the surface, it sounds like 'sudo'. > > runas is much simpler and merely starts a process with given user, group > and optionally after chroot call.
Also, unlike 'su -c', runas doesn't need the user to have a valid shell. robert
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