Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!chris 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 Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1033 Posted: Fri Jul 22 06:19:26 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 21:06:15 EDT References: <995@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 19 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 -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay