Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:06:40 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Running as a certain user Message-ID: <001401c3b6e6$9b5ea3f0$0201a8c0@bartxp> In-Reply-To: <1070155541.417.6.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca>
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> > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:49:58PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > > > > I am running a Counter Strike server on a 4.7 FreeBSD box, and I > > > > recently got it all working running as a normal user (had > > > been running > > > > as root). The game is installed in a users' homedir and > > > eventually I > > > > will be revoking login rights to the user in question to furthur > > > > minimize risk. To do this, I need to be able to run > the scripts as > > > > the user instead of whoever is logged in as. > > > > > > > > The structure of the scripts is like this: > > > > > > > > master script (start stop, public private args) > > > > | > > > > run_hlds wrapper script ( command line args for hlds_run ) > > > > | > > > > hlds_run ( Valve prog ) > > > > > > > > All three of the above scripts are owned by the isolated > > > user and have > > > > been chmod'ed to 6755. When I log in as a different user > > > and try to > > > > run the scripts, I get permission issues and am unable to > > > fire off the > > > > game server. What I need is to be able to run it on > demand as the > > > > isolated user like a crontab entry. > > > > > > > > Any ideas on what I am missing? > > > I would say you need to make sure that the files are all > > > owned by the user you're trying to run the hlds_run app as - > > > in the past this has worked fine for me: > > > > > > chown -R user:user /path/to/hlds/ > > > > > > > I just double checked, all files under that folder are owned by > > user:user... > > Try running the app with the command: > > # su user -c "/usr/bin/program" > > from crontab as you said. > Thanks, that is close enought to what I was looking for. All this time I though 'su' meant 'super user'.
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