From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 17:31:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01267 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:31:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Cartman.LAN.dom (ubppp233-233.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01257 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:31:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from Beowulf.LAN.dom (cjm2@Beowulf.LAN.dom [10.0.0.2]) by Cartman.LAN.dom (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA27009 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:30:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:30:45 -0500 Message-ID: <01BE08FB.2A8DC460.cjm2@earthling.net> From: "Christopher J. Michaels" To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Executing a process as another user Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:30:44 -0500 Organization: WCC X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, Ok this may sound like a stupid question, but it's something I'd like to know... Is there a way to exec a process as a specific user, from root, without su'ing to that user, setting the SUID flag on the executable, or running it from cron? Thanx Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message