Mats-Gxran Karlsen <matsg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to create a startup script that executes the transmission-daemon as > a regular user.
> /usr/bin/sudo -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWD $DAEMON -g $CONFIGDIR You are going about this the wrong way. sudo(8) is primarily designed to give additional priviledges to an unpriviledged user. You want to use su(1): su $USERNAME -c $DAEMON -g $CONFIGDIR -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de