[ILUG-BOM] GID?UID problem

[Suraj Jacob]

Hi friends,

I also had a similar problem, but mine is when I wrote a plugin for 
proftp to execute any command on a remote machine...Proftp is running as 
root, and sets the ownership and privileges of the user requesting the 
execution. However, when it runs a shell script (or anything that forks 
a terminal, the program run under it gets executed as root.

the temporary workaround I found for it is to su into user to a 
terminal, and run the command...something like:

su <user.group> -c "<command>"

but again, it is not a good solution, it forks 2 terminals instead of 1. 
Is there a better way to set the ownership of the user on a shell script 
when executed by a user?

Thanks in advance

Suraj

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>
> Rohan Poojary wrote:
>
>>Hi Group,
>>I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever i am trying to
>>open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses this GID/UID, and
>>when i am executing this script i am having a trouble of doing so,
>>I hope i am clear in my problem 
>>
>>"id: cannot find name for group ID 506"
>>
>>Rohan
>>
>>  
>>

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