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From: urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: starting a process as another user during startup
Message-ID: <1991May16.153115.23782@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 16 May 91 15:31:15 GMT
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In article <8646@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
> DELETED STUFF
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>What I would like to do is have the rc.local run this script
>and start up this monitoring program as a part of its startup 
>but I want it to start the process so the user is nbsnet not
>root. Is there a way to do this and if so, how?
>
>

Try:
	su nbsnet -c "This command to run"

Since you're running as root, the su(1) command will not prompt you for the password.

Sincerely,

John Ben Urban