Setuid is the tidiest way i think
su is good for one off stuff and it would
also be a good way to ru nthings if you needed to
run a program as several different users
Dean
Jill Rowling wrote:
>
> What method do people prefer when wanting a program to run as a particular
> user?
> Examples:
> At startup time, in init.d I might want to run a script as user
> "blah"
> Or I want to run a program as user "blah" where "blah" has less
> privileges than my normal user account.
>
> (Thinks of easily broken things like X and Netscape, hehe)
>
> Some solutions:
> su blah -c "/bin/sh myscript"
> (This will prompt for password if I am not already root and "blah"
> needs a password)
> or
> # chmod u+s blah myprogram
> Then, when called, myprogram should run as user "blah", although it
> probably won't work over NFS.
>
> Which is preferable?
> Are there other ways of doing it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jill.
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