From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: "Mário Gamito" <gamito@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running a program as non root (not trivial)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:51:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17879.23728.402148.936063@cerise.gclements.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D74ED0.10902@gmail.com>
Mário Gamito wrote:
> I need to run a program - auth_imap - as another user than root.
> sudo is not an option.
>
> Does anyone knows how to do it ?
When you say "as another user than root", do you mean that the process
which invokes auth_imap is running as root (so auth_imap will normally
also end up running as root)? If so, then use "su -c".
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
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2007-02-17 18:52 Running a program as non root (not trivial) Mário Gamito
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