I have a wget command inside a script, which is executed with sudo [scriptname.sh]. The wget command is: wget --quiet --user=$REALUSER --password=$PASSWORD $link
The script kept bombing out because the file that it's supposed to download, wasn't there. I removed the --quiet and added a '-o' and got the following: wget --user=[my actual username]: permission denied So, armed with that information, I played around outside the script and found out that if I execute: wget --user=[user] --password=[password] [link] The download completes successfully. However, if I try: sudo wget --user=[user] --password=[password] [link] I get the permission denied error. Is this by design? Does wget now allow you to specify and user other than $USER (in the sudo case, $USER=root). Thanks, Dan Rabb
