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[Justin Dearing]

Why not use sudo? or run a damon as the other user that performs the task
you need.
What exactly does the other user need to do?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Michele Waldman wrote:
>
> > The scenario is I'm running a php script but I want to switch linix
> users?
> >
> > Do I have to use ssh2?  I would have to go off the server and come back
> in
> > just to switch users?
>
> Only root can change user and I doubt your script will be running as root
> (otherwise any PHP scrpt could become any user and wreak havoc on a
> server!).
>
>
> This begs the question: why do you need to change user?
>
>
>
> --
> Aj.
>
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