Why not use sudo? or run a damon as the other user that performs the task you need. What exactly does the other user need to do?
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Ajai Khattri <a...@bitblit.net> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Michele Waldman wrote: > > > The scenario is I'm running a php script but I want to switch linix > users? > > > > Do I have to use ssh2? I would have to go off the server and come back > in > > just to switch users? > > Only root can change user and I doubt your script will be running as root > (otherwise any PHP scrpt could become any user and wreak havoc on a > server!). > > > This begs the question: why do you need to change user? > > > > -- > Aj. > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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