Running as a certain user

From: Derrick Ryalls (ryallsd_at_datasphereweb.com)
Date: 11/29/03

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:49:58 -0800

    I am running a Counter Strike server on a 4.7 FreeBSD box, and I
    recently got it all working running as a normal user (had been running
    as root). The game is installed in a users' homedir and eventually I
    will be revoking login rights to the user in question to furthur
    minimize risk. To do this, I need to be able to run the scripts as the
    user instead of whoever is logged in as.

    The structure of the scripts is like this:

    master script (start stop, public private args)
            |
    run_hlds wrapper script ( command line args for hlds_run )
            |
    hlds_run ( Valve prog )

    All three of the above scripts are owned by the isolated user and have
    been chmod'ed to 6755. When I log in as a different user and try to run
    the scripts, I get permission issues and am unable to fire off the game
    server. What I need is to be able to run it on demand as the isolated
    user like a crontab entry.

    Any ideas on what I am missing?

    TIA

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