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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: enhanced cron.c, anyone?
Message-ID: <1033@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 06:19:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 22 06:19:26 1983
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We have a program called "user" (I think this was sent over
net.sources), which we use to run as someone other than uid 0, gid 0
from crontab, e.g.

10  6 * * * /usr/local/user news /usr/lib/news/news.daily.sh

User is similar to su, except that it (a) understands groups and (b)
allows a command to follow the user:group specifier.  It also changes
ownership of your terminal.  Our version even handles suspending
processes, changing terminal ownership back and forth.

I suppose I can send it to ARPA sites that don't get net.sources.

				- Chris
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