Re: [linux][system] suid and file permissions

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 04/03/99


On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Bill Long wrote:

>okay. i have my mud set up to boot on system boot(from the rc.local file)
>my mud has its own user and group.  the trouble is, when i run it from
>the rc.local file, it gets run as roots UID. so all the files created
>during the session(new players, log files, etc) are owned by root.

su mud -c ~mud/run-mud

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