Running as a certain user
Derrick Ryalls
ryallsd at datasphereweb.com
Sat Nov 29 16:21:06 PST 2003
> 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...
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