naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:

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> Mats-Gxran Karlsen <matsgora@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to create a startup script that executes the transmission-daemon as
> > a regular user.
>
> > /usr/bin/sudo -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWD $DAEMON -g $CONFIGDIR
>
> You are going about this the wrong way.  sudo(8) is primarily
> designed to give additional priviledges to an unpriviledged user.
> You want to use su(1):
>
> su $USERNAME -c $DAEMON -g $CONFIGDIR
>
> -- 
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

I truly believed that one of the most useful uses was to drop privilegies...

maybe some reading will help you?  sudo(8), sudoers(5).

Saludos.

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