As far as I know, you can't. I think you have to setuid() and exec() in a, say, C compiled program.
El Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:05:08PM -0500, Alex Malinovich escribió: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script > which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it and then > activates it. However, the script always gets run as root (it's being > run as an APM script). This doesn't work if I'm logged in as myself > since xscreensaver will think it's dealing with root. > > -Alex -- --------------------------------------------------- Alberto Cabello Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Universidad de Extremadura - España - Spain Debian Potato - GNU/Linux 2.2.20 --------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
