[NTLUG:Discuss] su?

[Fred James]

Assuming you have your reasons, one answer is "su - username", and then
the password.

Another answer would be to add the group for the files in question to
your "ordinary" user's list of secondary groups, but that only works if
that group has the desired privileges for the files in question.


Lance Simmons wrote:
> 
> I need to allow an ordinary iuser to create files and change the
> ownership of the file to another account. The other account is
> www, which is used by a Front-Page enabled web server. (It's an
> AIX system we're talking about, but I know you folks will know
> what to do.)
> 
> The easiest way to do this, obviously, would be to allow user A
> to su to the www account. But is this even possible?
> 
> I guess my question is: how do I give a single, ordinary user,
> the ability to act as a special user such as www, without giving
> him root access?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Lance Simmons
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