Re: [lug-nuts] running a script as another user

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Try this

chmod u+s ./scriptname

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.

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