Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script SOLVED

2002-05-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-15T20:23:39Z, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ended up using su -c for this particular case since the script is > already running as root but now that I know about sudo I've got a dozen > other scripts that I can finally write. Thanks! :) Heh! That's much the same rea

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script SOLVED

2002-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:15, Kirk Strauser wrote: > My new favorite answer is "use sudo". It lets you give certain users > permission to execute certain programs (including scripts) as particular > other user, with or without prompting for a password. It's very well > supported across a range o