RE: Running as a certain user

From: Derrick Ryalls (ryallsd_at_datasphereweb.com)
Date: 11/30/03

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    To: <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:06:40 -0800

    > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:49:58PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
    > > > > 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?
    > > > I would say you need to make sure that the files are all
    > > > owned by the user you're trying to run the hlds_run app as -
    > > > in the past this has worked fine for me:
    > > >
    > > > chown -R user:user /path/to/hlds/
    > > >
    > >
    > > I just double checked, all files under that folder are owned by
    > > user:user...
    >
    > Try running the app with the command:
    >
    > # su user -c "/usr/bin/program"
    >
    > from crontab as you said.
    >

    Thanks, that is close enought to what I was looking for. All this time
    I though 'su' meant 'super user'.

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