Answer to su in crontab

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From: Dewey Henize
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 21:43

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Thanks to everyone that responded with ideas that worked to change the
effective user id for a process started from crontab.

The key seems to be to use the '-c "command line"' option to su.
Strangely there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the man pages
on our sequent, although after it was pointed out to me (thanks rich)
I found it documented on a couple other systems we have, and it does
seem to be working fine here.

example line:

30 * * * * su uucp -c "/bin/sh /usr/lib/news/cleanstuff"

Dewey Henize
Execucom Systems.

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Subject: Answer to su in crontab
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Date: 14 Mar 89 21:43:06 GMT
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