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Old 29th June 2011
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Default Running a command as a different user w/o starting the login shell

Is there a straightforward manner?

I know about su -c user, but that will try to start the login shell. If the login shell is set to /sbin/nologin (As it often is for cron/daemon users) it won't work.

I actually solved this problem already using a very simple C program using setgid(), setuid(), and system(). But I find it hard to believe that I'm the first one with this issue and that this is the easiest way ...
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Wouldn't sudo(8) do this easily?
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Yup.

Code:
# sudo -u test ls
BACKUP

# grep test /etc/passwd 
test:*:2000:2000:test:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
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Thanks, that works. I typically don't have sudo installed/configured though.
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I probably would have tried execl() or execv()
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