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Old 06-08-2004, 11:21 PM   #1
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Execute a command as another user


I am logged in as root. I want to execute a command as another user ($USER).

I am trying to do this from a command line with no scripting and all on one line.

This is for qmail for the ./Maildir/ functionality.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance
 
Old 06-08-2004, 11:30 PM   #2
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I think you should be able to do something like "su -c MYCMD".

You can look up the details in "man su".
 
Old 06-08-2004, 11:33 PM   #3
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Yeah, thats what I have been trying, but either I am an idiot (very possible here) or what I am trying to do is not possible.

Here is what I am trying...

su - user -c /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir

The problem is that the command is not accepting anything after the space.
 
Old 06-08-2004, 11:37 PM   #4
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Try putting the command in quotes:

su - MYUSER -c "/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir"

PS:
Apologies in advance, but I'm booted to Micro$oft at the moment, so I can't test it out myself...
 
Old 06-08-2004, 11:38 PM   #5
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Tried that too...didn't work.
 
Old 06-08-2004, 11:43 PM   #6
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Sorry. Even though you said you didn't want to (or couldn't) go that route, it would be work it to wrap the "maildirmake" command and the "~/Maildir" argument together in a shell script to see if that solves the problem:

su - MYUSER -c MYSCRIPT_WITH_CMD_AND_ARGS
 
Old 06-08-2004, 11:45 PM   #7
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The reason I don't want to is becasue I do not know shell scripting yet.

Guess I have to learn that to progress.

Thanks for your help.
 
  


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