su command question

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:51 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

> That's excellent, I didn't know that rc.local is run by root. That
> solves starting the server at boot time, however what if I want to
> issue the Ventrilo server start/stop commands without being prompted?
> Is this when I use "sudo su" together?

Just run:

sudo -u ventrilo <command>

Assuming you have sudo privileges, this will work without a password
prompt.
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