From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 23:19:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27239 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27233 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:19:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA33294; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:19:44 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA21867; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:19:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:19:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Christopher J. Michaels" cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Executing a process as another user In-Reply-To: <01BE08FB.2A8DC460.cjm2@earthling.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Christopher J. Michaels wrote: >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? Look at the 'sudo' port. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message