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Run compile command make as another user
Hello

I'm trying to compile LibreOffice core from github.com. But this can - as far as I know - not be done as root user. So I compiled it as login user (the user as I log in) and compilation works.

Now I try to compile LibreOffice core as a user I created using useradd:

useradd -r -U -m -d /var/lib/anotheruser -s /bin/false anotheruser

Then I try to run the compile commands using sudo -u. And it fails.

I'm not an experienced bash user. But I realized that some environment variables doesn't come from anotheruser but from the login user that starts the command sudo -u. So when I run (as login user)

sudo -u lool /bin/bash -c "echo `id -u`"

the id of the login user is returned and not the id of anotheruser. Why?

Any hints are welcome. Kind regards.
 
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scheduler

ICECREAM(1)						      Icecream User's Manual						       ICECREAM(1)

NAME

       scheduler - Icecream scheduler

SYNOPSIS

       scheduler [-n | --netname name] [-p | --port port] [-h | --help] [-l | --log-file file] [-d | --daemonize] [-r | --allow-run-as-user]
		 [-v [v [v]]]

DESCRIPTION

       The Icecream scheduler is the central instance of an Icecream compile network. It distributes the compile jobs and provides  the  data  for
       the monitors.

OPTIONS

       -n, --netname netname
	      The name of the Icecream network the scheduler controls.

       -p, --port port
	      IP port the scheduler uses.

       -h, --help
	      Print help message.

       -l, --log-file logfile
	      Name of file where log output is written to.

       -d, --daemonize
	      Detach daemon from shell.

       -v, -vv, -vvv
	      Control verbosity of daemon. The more v the more verbose.

       -r, --allow-run-as-user
	      Force running the scheduler with user rights. Usually you will need to run the scheduler with root rights.

SEE ALSO

       icecream, scheduler, iceccd, icemon

AUTHOR

       Cornelius Schumacher

Icecream							 April 21th, 2005						       ICECREAM(1)