Brian Lavender wrote:
>
> Try this
>
> chmod u+s ./scriptname
>
I beleive setuid has no affect on scipts, only binary programs. You
probably want to do
su someuser -c 'command -x -y -z'
ex: su nobody -c '/usr/local/games/quake/qwsv +gamedir fortress'
which will su to user nobody then run qwsv. I take it you do not want to
start your quake server as root :)
> and have it owned by whichever owner you want it to run as. Anyone
> corrections to this?
>
> brian
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 11:22:17AM -0800, Scott Tyson wrote:
> > I would like to put some scripts in my rc.local file but I do not want
> > them to execute as root. Is there a way to specify what user the script
> > executes as? The scripts are shell/perl.
>
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