Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:08:38 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd2@grant.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running a program as nobody Message-ID: <20011026140838.B68198@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011026140635.A68198@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:06:36PM -0700 References: <200110262059.VAA21039@splat.grant.org> <20011026140635.A68198@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:06:36PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > su nobody -c /usr/local/bin/food As someone else pointed out, there's the problem of nobody's shell being /nonexistant. You can get around that with -m: su -m nobody -c /usr/local/bin/food (tested here with "id" in place of "/usr/local/bin/food".) -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Clearly there are more things in the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * heavens than anyone anticipated. -enp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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