SUMMARY: running a command from root as another user

From: David Bremer <DaveB_at_healthotago.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:32:42 +1200

Sorry everyone - this is very definitly an RTFM!!!! <blush>

Steve Gibbons pointed out:
>
What's wrong with su - dba -c /full/path/command_to_run_as_dba ?

and the anser of course is NOTHING

Dave

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Pretentious quote of the week/month (whatever):
"When a process is created, its parent process ID is the process ID of
its parent process."
man pages ..... ya gotta love em!

Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 01:42:34 NZST