[DGD]DGD on linux running as root user - help please..

Par Winzell zell at skotos.net
Mon Jul 9 03:46:55 CEST 2001


 > I need DGD to run itself as a different user:group.  At the very
 > least, as a different group only.  Does anyone know how to do this?
 > Is there a command in linux that i can do to change the user:group
 > that an application runs under, or is there a place in the code
 > that specifies this?

Yes, 'su'. For example,

	su andrew /usr/dgd/src/a.out /usr/dgd/mud.dgd

would run /usr/dgd/src/a.out as user 'andrew'.

Zell

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