Cron jobs running as something other than root

[Douglas B. Jones]

In article <26d9499b.2715 at petunia.CalPoly.EDU> gmartin at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Hackman) writes:
>	Is there any way to make a job that runs from cron run under a 
>        different login id???
>	-Guy Martin
>         Kennedy Library Computer Services
>	 Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
>Guy Martin (Hackman)             //      Internet: gmartin at polyslo.calpoly.edu
>---------------------           //       Fubarnet: guy at fubarsys.slo.ca.us
>Amiga, the tool for the     \\ //        Work: guy at library.calpoly.edu     
>creative mind--------->      \X/         UUCP: ucbvax!voder!polyslo!gmartin



In our /etc/crontab there are entries that are run for uucp.

Here are some examples:

30 * * * * su uucpa < /usr/var/uucp/uucp.hour
0 6 * * * su uucpa < /usr/var/uucp/uucp.day
0 12 * * * su uucpa < /usr/var/uucp/uucp.noon
0 3 1 * * su uucpa < /usr/var/uucp/uucp.week
0 2 * * * su uucpa < /usr/var/uucp/uucp.night
#30 2 1 * * su uucp < /usr/var/uucp/uucp.longhall

"uucpa" is an admin. id for uucp.

hope this helps,
Douglas

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