Nut upsuser - Mar 2021 - Request For Additional Status Confirmation

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Why use sudo instead of su for this case?
Wouldn't su ask for the login password?  This is not practical in rc.local.
In addition user nut doesn't have a login password.

Roger

Su asks for nothing if executed as root . . . it already knows it has authority,
so simply changes the user id the command is run as (as I recall, with
"-c" to run a script).

- Tim

On March 7, 2021 2:01:34 PM CST, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org>
wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>
>> Why use sudo instead of su for this case?
>
>Wouldn't su ask for the login password?  This is not practical in
rc.local.
>In addition user nut doesn't have a login password.
>
>Roger
>
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On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Tim Dawson wrote:
> Su asks for nothing if executed as root . . . it already knows it has 
> authority, so simply changes the user id the command is run as (as I
recall,
> with "-c" to run a script).
> 
> - Tim
Then ? su -c "/usr/local/bin/myscript" nut ? looks like the best
choice.  Roger

On 3/7/2021 12:01 PM, Roger Price wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> 
>> Why use sudo instead of su for this case?
> 
> Wouldn't su ask for the login password?? This is not practical in
rc.local.
> In addition user nut doesn't have a login password.
rc.local is already being run by root, right?  This happens at system
startup.

H
> Roger
> 
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