What method do people prefer when wanting a program to run as a particular
user?
Examples:
At startup time, in init.d I might want to run a script as user
"blah"
Or I want to run a program as user "blah" where "blah" has less
privileges than my normal user account.
(Thinks of easily broken things like X and Netscape, hehe)
Some solutions:
su blah -c "/bin/sh myscript"
(This will prompt for password if I am not already root and "blah"
needs a password)
or
# chmod u+s blah myprogram
Then, when called, myprogram should run as user "blah", although it
probably won't work over NFS.
Which is preferable?
Are there other ways of doing it?
Regards,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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