-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:25:33PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: > I know there is some way to allow a program to run with permissions of > it's owner (i.e. root) but I forget how to do this. What am I > forgetting?
suid. chmod u+s filename > Also, if I create a crontab file, will all programs run as nobody or > with the permissions of the owner? And is it possible to see whether or > not a crontab entry was successful by viewing a log of some kind? What are you trying to acheive? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/e7ThUzgNqloQMwcRAjXcAJ9kR2VTaYGi5o5bkaUjI0omo60n0gCfaj3N GsfbSdudhKJOPntf4hzeCNs= =sUZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]