su command question

[Alan Milnes]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:12 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
>> The original poster wanted the script to run as the
>> user "ventrilo" and *not* as the user "root".
> 
> It's early in the morning and maybe there is a better solution, but it
> seems sensible to do the following if there isn't one:
> 
> sudo su ventrilo -c "/etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d"
> 
> The OP can the set up /etc/sudoers to allow running 'su ventrilo -c
> "/etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d"' without a password

He could do but it's just a long winded way of doing what I suggested!

Alan