Help!! I've got a really, REALLY Beta off the shelf application that I'm administering that requires three servers to be synchronized at the startup. Two are windows servers and third is a Unix server. The primary server is Win and it will kick off the synchronization calls to the other two.

We thought we could use port 80, apache and perl to do this, and all would be well and good except (don't cha hate those) the process needs to be started by a different user than the one who owns the Apache server. Of course this is a system call, and the normal rc file syntax for this is:

su - userid "/etc/start-process.sh"

this, of course, asks for the userid's password and won't kick off the process without it.

How can I get the password fed into this and/or kick off the process as the necessary user?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Juls

In reply to starting a process as a different user by julsford

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