Nut upsuser - Mar 2021 - Request For Additional Status Confirmation

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 Sunday 07 March 2021 15:13:58 Roger Price wrote:
> 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
Does that syntax work?  I've always used:

su username -c "nano file to be edited"

Curious...

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Actually, su nut -c <script> . . . or it just runs as root, since you have
not given it any other userid . . .

On March 7, 2021 2:13:58 PM CST, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org>
wrote:
>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
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On 3/7/2021 3:02 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
> Actually, su nut -c <script> . . . or it just runs as root, since you
> have not given it any other userid . . .
Check the man page for your OS.  The above is right for linux, not for *BSD.

It may be different for other OSes.

H
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> On March 7, 2021 2:13:58 PM CST, Roger Price <roger at
rogerprice.org> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
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