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From: det@nightowl.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: starting a process as another user during startup
Message-ID: <1991May17.183616.8144@nightowl.MN.ORG>
Date: 17 May 91 18:36:16 GMT
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les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

>In article <8646@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:

>>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?

> su -c user "command string"

I believe that you meant	su user -c "command string"
In your form (at least on the systems that i have access to), su will see the
"-" argument and "redo" the environment...
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