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[ale] Lowering account privileges in a script



Something like this should do:

su -c "apachectl start" nobody



John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I would like to run a web server as 'nobody:nobody' rather than a more 
> privileged user (especially since I plan to crash-test it!). How can I 
> launch it that way?
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
>
>