Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:19:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Executing a process as another user
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811052319050.29882-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BE08FB.2A8DC460.cjm2@earthling.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Christopher J. Michaels wrote:

>Hey,
>Ok this may sound like a stupid question, but it's something I'd like to 
>know...
> Is there a way to exec a process as a specific user, from root, without 
>su'ing to that user, setting the SUID flag on the executable, or running it 
>from cron?

Look at the 'sudo' port.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.05.9811052319050.29882-100000>