su command question

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 08:13 +0100, Alan Milnes wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 00:40 +0100, Alan Milnes wrote:
> >> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> >>> This is incorrect.  The script will run with the privileges of a user in
> >>> the "root" group, instead of the user ventrilo. I am not sure what
> >>> happens with the above, since by default there are no users in the
> >>> "root" group.  You could do this, however:
> >> Well I carefully tested it on my system and it works as expected - the 
> >> script runs as root, doesn't require a password and successfully carries 
> >> out the command.
> > 
> > Exactly my point.  The original poster wanted the script to run as the
> > user "ventrilo" and *not* as the user "root".
> 
> No he didn't - read the post again.  His requirement was to run it 
> without a password prompt - he was using his user name as he knew it 
> needed super user privileges.

Read the original post again.  He specified running the command as the
user "ventrilo".  If I recall he was doing:

su ventrilo -c <command>

This runs the command as the user "ventrilo".
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