Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:14:32 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, "'User Questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Running cron jobs as nobody Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20081003061201.02713660@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <48E4E4B8.90202@pixelhammer.com> References: <48E4E4B8.90202@pixelhammer.com>
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At 10:11 AM 10/2/2008, DAve wrote:
>Good morning all,
>
>We have a cronjob we need to run as nobody from /etc/crontab and it seems
>to be not working. The job runs, but not as user nobody.
>
>I noticed two things,
>
>1) the job to update the locate DB runs as nobody, because the script uses
>su to become nobody.
>echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody || rc=3
>
>2) nobody, as expected, has no shell or home dir in /etc/password.
>
>I searched around for an answer but didn't see anything concerning this
>other than a patch to cron to check if setuid fails.
>
>Is setting the user to nobody in /etc/crontab not possible?
>
>Thanks,
>
>DAve
I've done this two different ways:
One is to use sudo and have your script su - to nobody. You will need to
test your script first before trying it through cron.
Create a cronjob for nobody using:
crontab -e -u nobody
Hope this helps.
-Derek
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