Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script
As far as I know, you can't. I think you have to setuid() and exec() in
a, say, C compiled program.
El Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:05:08PM -0500, Alex Malinovich escribió:
> How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script
> which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it and then
> activates it. However, the script always gets run as root (it's being
> run as an APM script). This doesn't work if I'm logged in as myself
> since xscreensaver will think it's dealing with root.
>
> -Alex
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Universidad de Extremadura - España - Spain
Debian Potato - GNU/Linux 2.2.20
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