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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers use samba to become another user Post 302324352 by mjdbhouse on Wednesday 10th of June 2009 01:46:46 PM
Old 06-10-2009
use samba to become another user

Make that SUDO!
Does anybody use sudo to run programs as another user but not root?
I want to allow a user to run a compile script that oracle generally runs but if I could allow them to run it as oracle via sudo that would be great.
Does sudo work that way?

Last edited by mjdbhouse; 06-10-2009 at 04:15 PM.. Reason: what a maroon! I meant sudo not samba.
 

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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)
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