On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 at 22:20 GMT, Rick Weinbender penned: > Is there a way within a bash script to temporarily su to the root > user, then run some commands, then go back to the original user? * Or > can you temporarily (within a script), assign the current user to have > more rights, then take away those rights? bash scripting is fairly > new to me. > > Thanks, -Rick
I'm not sure about the answer to your explicit question, but I suppose you could make a program setuid and have it be owned by root. (I'm not saying it's a good idea, mind, just that it's possible.) -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
