Running as a certain user

[Derrick Ryalls]

> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:49:58PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> > I am running a Counter Strike server on a 4.7 FreeBSD box, and I 
> > recently got it all working running as a normal user (had 
> been running 
> > as root).  The game is installed in a users' homedir and 
> eventually I 
> > will be revoking login rights to the user in question to furthur 
> > minimize risk.  To do this, I need to be able to run the scripts as 
> > the user instead of whoever is logged in as.
> > 
> > The structure of the scripts is like this:
> > 
> > master script (start stop, public private args)
> > 	|
> > run_hlds wrapper script ( command line args for hlds_run )
> > 	|
> > hlds_run ( Valve prog )
> > 
> > All three of the above scripts are owned by the isolated 
> user and have 
> > been chmod'ed to 6755.  When I log in as a different user 
> and try to 
> > run the scripts, I get permission issues and am unable to 
> fire off the 
> > game server.  What I need is to be able to run it on demand as the 
> > isolated user like a crontab entry.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what I am missing?
> I would say you need to make sure that the files are all 
> owned by the user you're trying to run the hlds_run app as - 
> in the past this has worked fine for me:
> 
> chown -R user:user /path/to/hlds/
> 

I just double checked, all files under that folder are owned by
user:user...