Re[2]: [KLUG Members] Running a program as a specified user at boot.

[Tim Gray]

It occurred to me that a ls -l might be useful to those who might
doubt that I actually set the SUID bit.  I did, didn't I?

 -rwsr-xr-x    1 admin    admin          36 Oct 17 14:06 govnc

--  Tim Gray


Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 2:18:26 PM, you wrote:

>>At boot I want to run a script as uid 501 so that the program starts
>>with thier variables and permissions etc...
>>How do I do this?  I figure I need to put something in /etc/rc.local,
>>but what?

ATW> su -l {username} -c {command}

ATW> since the startup scripts run as root, this shouldn't give you any trouble

ATW> You can also change the owner of the binary to {user} and setuid {u+s} and the
ATW> program will "always" run as that user, no matter who starts it.

ATW> On a kerbized network you can grant permissions to execute the binary as a given
ATW> user to any other user via the ksu facility

>>The script will be in the user's (and only the users's) path and is
>>located at /home/$USER/bin/$SCRIPT, for example...

ATW> su or ksu with "-l" should develope the given user's default environment.

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