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From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:06:44 -0600
To: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: Starting process as different user via rc
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Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:26:39AM -0600, Gerd Knops wrote:
> > Is there a way (eg a small utility or some such) that would allow a
> > process/script to be started from rc using a different UID than
> > root? SUID would be a poor solution in the case I have in mind.
>
> You can use su for it I think:
>
> [/usr/home/edwin] root@kludge>su - www whoami
> www
>
That should do nicely, thanks! Odd, using su never occurred to me in  
that context...

Gerd


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