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bash Cookbook

by Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham
May 2007
Beginner
628 pages
15h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Running As a Non-root User

Problem

You’d like to run your scripts as a non-root user, but are afraid you won’t be able to do the things you need to do.

Solution

Run your scripts under non-root user IDs, either as you or as dedicated users, and run interactively as non-root, but configure sudo to handle any tasks that require elevated privileges.

Discussion

sudo may be used in a script as easily as it may be used interactively. See the sudoers NOPASSWD option especially. See Using sudo More Securely.

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