in reply to Running a daemon process as another user

Either make the script voluntarily drop privileges (set both $> and $< to your target uid when the script starts), or change users before invoking the script, for example with the system su -c.

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Re^2: Running a daemon process as another user
by toadi (Chaplain) on Oct 27, 2004 at 08:39 UTC
    su -c worked


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