Quake2/3 actually and No I prefer not to have them run as root. :)
I'll give these a whirl.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Machado" <mike@innercite.com>
To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [lug-nuts] running a script as another user
> Brian Lavender wrote:
> >
> > Try this
> >
> > chmod u+s ./scriptname
> >
>
> I beleive setuid has no affect on scipts, only binary programs. You
> probably want to do
>
> su someuser -c 'command -x -y -z'
>
> ex: su nobody -c '/usr/local/games/quake/qwsv +gamedir fortress'
>
> which will su to user nobody then run qwsv. I take it you do not want
to
> start your quake server as root :)
>
> > and have it owned by whichever owner you want it to run as. Anyone
> > corrections to this?
> >
> > brian
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 11:22:17AM -0800, Scott Tyson wrote:
> > > I would like to put some scripts in my rc.local file but I do not
want
> > > them to execute as root. Is there a way to specify what user the
script
> > > executes as? The scripts are shell/perl.
> >
> > --
> > Brian Lavender
> > http://www.brie.com/brian/
> >
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