From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 9:17:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from central.picker.com (central.picker.com [144.54.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D46D15194 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:17:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhan@servecom.picker.com) Received: from servecom.picker.com ([144.54.188.1]) by central.picker.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA03673 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:30:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from sean-han (proxy.picker.com [144.54.3.10]) by servecom.picker.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA21997 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:16:50 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "Sean Han" To: Subject: Run a process with a specific UID Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:17:43 -0500 Message-ID: <002c01be672c$1504a340$babc3690@sean-han.picker.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Everyone: I want to run a program in my daily script. Because it's the root call the daily script, so the owner of all programs launched by daily script will be root. How can I launch a program with a specific UID from the daily script without setting the suid bit? Thanks! Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message