On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:16:27PM +1000, Peter Moulder wrote: > As root (assuming running with set -e): > > d=`mktemp -d` > install -d -m 700 -o nobody "$d"/writable > (cd "$d"/writable && su nobody -c 'wget ...') > > User `nobody' can write into this `writable' directory, but only for a > process that has already cd'd into it as root before becoming nobody: > the "$d" directory is executable only by root. I think it is intended that "nobody" never owns any files. So the right way to do it probably involves dynamically creating a user, or using some user guaranteed to exist, like "sys" or "operator".
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