I am trying to start a set of processes on behalf of a non root user at
boot time. I want the scripts to have the PATH, home directory and
permisions of this user, even though this user has not logged in (the
machine is still booting, running boot.local, I think it's not even at
a multi user runlevel. Further, I's like this to be portable to non-Linux
*nixes such as Solaris 10. Is this possible ? Any help is interesting.
Thanks

In comp.os.linux.setup Tom Rauschenbach <tomsusenet@tomsdomain.org>:


> I am trying to start a set of processes on behalf of a non root user at
> boot time. I want the scripts to have the PATH, home directory and
> permisions of this user, even though this user has not logged in (the
> machine is still booting, running boot.local, I think it's not even at
> a multi user runlevel. Further, I's like this to be portable to non-Linux
> *nixes such as Solaris 10. Is this possible ? Any help is interesting.

Yep and it should work on any unix:

su -c "command/script" username

Hint:
man su

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