Sorry, RTFM... I got the order of the arguments wrong. Should be:
su foo -c whoami. Works like a charm. Dylan On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 10:00, Dylan Reinhardt wrote: > I'm trying to start a process from an init script using su -c > > After getting results indicating that I was still running under uid 0, I > did a quick test: > > # su foo > $ whoami > foo > $ exit > # su -c whoami foo > root > > > I see the same results using any regular user shell account. > > Am I missing something obvious here? > > TIA, > > Dylan > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
