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From: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd2@grant.org>
To: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
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Subject: Re: running a program as nobody
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> The format would be:
> 
> su nobody -c /path/to/command
> 
> If you want it chroot'd I think you're safe doing:
> 
> chroot /new/root su nobody -c /path/to/command/relative/to/new/root
> 
> I believe you'd need "su" in your /new/root, too.

Thanks, that appears to work, so the man page for su appears to be
wrong:

  su [-] [-Kflm] [-c class] [login [args]]


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