change to unprivileged user without sudo?

german · 01-28-2005, 12:38 PM

Hi all

right now I have a script to start Jakarta Tomcat as user nobody which works great, but it loads up /var/log/messages with messages like this:

Code:

Jan 28 13:23:12 puter sudo:     root : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/usr/local/apache2/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31/webapps ; USER=nobody ; COMMAND=/usr/local/apache2/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31/bin/startup.sh

is there a preferred way to execute a command as a different user which might not clutter up my logs so much?

TIA

B.

david_ross · 01-28-2005, 01:03 PM

If you are running the sudo command as root you could try:
su - nobody -c "/path/to/startup"

german · 01-28-2005, 01:32 PM

thanks, it works but definitely still ends up in the logs. Maybe I'm being too picky. It's certainly good in most instances to know who is su'ing and sudo'ing stuff