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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Run shell script as different user Post 69573 by mskarica on Saturday 16th of April 2005 02:24:26 AM
Old 04-16-2005
Run shell script as different user

I want to start off by saying thanks to everyone here, you're answers and suggestions are always very helpful.

I have a shell script which is invoked when an email is received. This shell script extracts any attachments that are sent with this email, and then runs a script which submits these files to a repository. The problem is that when the script is envoked, "daemon" is the owner of the files that are created, so the ci and co functions will not work properly. I'm trying to find a way where I can change the owner of the process when the script is envoked.

For example, when the script is envoked, the owner is "daemon", but I need to change the owner to "myUserName", so that when the files are created and the other scripts/commands are called, the system will think that "myUserName" is the person running all of the commands/scripts.

Is this at all possible?
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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