Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:06:36 -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: <20011026140635.A68198@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <200110262059.VAA21039@splat.grant.org>; from mg-fbsd2@grant.org on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:59:43PM %2B0100 References: <200110262059.VAA21039@splat.grant.org>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:59:43PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > I want to run a particular daemon as userid nobody. I tried the > obvious thing of using su like this: > > su -c nobody nobody /usr/local/bin/food > > but no matter what I try, I cannot get something like this to work. Follow the example in "man su": # su man -c catman # Runs the command catman as user man. You will be asked for man's # password unless your real UID is 0. su nobody -c /usr/local/bin/food (mmm... 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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