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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Question about sudo Post 302719585 by DGPickett on Monday 22nd of October 2012 04:26:42 PM
Old 10-22-2012
You should dot in an environment script first thing, to retain control. Since this is running as a child process, it does not affect the user environment.
 

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envuidgid(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      envuidgid(8)

NAME
envuidgid - runs another program with environment variables indicating a specified account's uid and gid. SYNOPSIS
envuidgid account child DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments. envuidgid sets $UID to account's uid and $GID to account's gid. It then runs child. EXIT CODES
envuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it runs out of memory for environment variables, or if it cannot run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child. SEE ALSO
supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8), setuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8) http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html envuidgid(8)
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