* Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010326 16:26 +0200: > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: > > > I would like to make fetchmail run as a user rather than root when run > > > via my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script [...] > Because what Andrew Berger suggested was this: su - -c 'fetchmail' $USER
Sorry, hit the wrong key so it went per PM. > ie if fetchmail is run as the user that ran the pon script then would it > deliver the mail to the user OK but not other users? Thus if run as user mail > then would it have more trouble delivering to the user who called the script > even since he will have a different UID. If you have more than one users, for i in $(ls /home); do su - -c 'fetchmail' $i; done Though running as user mail, as Henrique suggested, is way more elegant. It would be a great idea to have a solution for ppp users "out of the box"... Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
