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...
> 
> Try running the app with the command:
> 
> # su user -c "/usr/bin/program"
> 
> from crontab as you said.
> 

Thanks, that is close enought to what I was looking for.  All this time
I though 'su' meant 'super user'.