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Re: launch screen by root as another user
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zeroguy |
Subject: |
Re: launch screen by root as another user |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:01:01 -0500 |
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:22:46 -0600
Gary Skowronek <address@hidden> wrote:
> su $user -c screen -A -m -d -S SOF2_svr /usr/local/games/sof2/sof2ded
> +set net_port $2 +exec $3 +set sv_pure 1 +set fs_game rocmod
What is the shell in /etc/passwd for $user? If it's /bin/false or
something, you need to add `-s /bin/bash` to the su command. (And I
think you might need to put everything after -c in quotes, so su doesn't
interpret the other arguments as arguments to su.)
-zeroguy