run program not root

[Frank Reppin]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] adrian kok wrote:

Hi,

> how do I make script to run program by another user?
>

do sth like:

#!/bin/sh
su - jabberd -c '/usr/local/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/jabberd/jabberd -c
/usr/local/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/jabber.xml'

best regards,

Frank Reppin


> eg:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> su - jabberd
> /usr/local/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/jabberd/jabberd -c
> /usr/local/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/jabber.xml
>
> Thank you
>
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