Running a program as non root (not trivial)

Hi,

I need to run a program - auth_imap - as another user than root.
sudo is not an option.

Does anyone knows how to do it ?

Ant help would be appreciated.

Warm Regards,
M=E1rio Gamito
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Re: Running a program as non root (not trivial)

M=E1rio Gamito wrote:

> I need to run a program - auth_imap - as another user than root.
> sudo is not an option.
>=20
> Does anyone knows how to do it ?

When you say "as another user than root", do you mean that the process
which invokes auth_imap is running as root (so auth_imap will normally
also end up running as root)? If so, then use "su -c".

--=20
Glynn Clements
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