Re: [uug] Becoming a new user in bash

[Andrew Jorgensen]

If you only want to run one command as another user (another script perhaps? even a dynamically generated one?) you can use the -c option to su.

David Smith wrote:

I'd like to be Borne Again in a script running as root. How can I change
to a different user (su won't work) during execution, like setuid(int)
does in C?

--Dave



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