starting a process as another user during startup

[Derek E. Terveer]

les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

>In article <8646 at alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman at cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:

>>but I want it to start the process so the user is nbsnet not
>>root. Is there a way to do this and if so, how?

> su -c user "command string"

I believe that you meant	su user -c "command string"
In your form (at least on the systems that i have access to), su will see the
"-" argument and "redo" the environment...
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