Running as another user
A Duston
hald at sound.net
Mon Nov 25 15:21:33 CST 2002
Gene Dascher wrote:
>
> Is there a way in *NIX to run an executable as another user, where any file
> access or creation will be done as that user?
--snip--
> I tried chmod u+s <script>, but that did not work the way I thought it
> should.
Normally you make the executabe owned by the user, and then chmod u+s it.
Scripts don't normally obey this since they are considered a bigger security
risk as they then proceed to run many other binary executables.
Hal
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