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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:36:46 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running cron jobs as nobody
Message-ID:  <20081002153646.GA24929@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <48E4E4B8.90202@pixelhammer.com>
References:  <48E4E4B8.90202@pixelhammer.com>

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You can use ``su -c '/path/to/command' username'' to run scripts as
users other than root.

Another way is to use ``crontab -u username''.  man crontab for
details.

Bill
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