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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root
Keywords: Cron
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.110345.19301@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 11:03:45 GMT
References: <26d9499b.2715@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
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In article <26d9499b.2715@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> gmartin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Hackman) writes:
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"	Is there any way to make a job that runs from cron run under a 
"        different login id???

* * * * * su UID -c "command -args"

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