Rainer Traut wrote: > I think a better question is what is 'runuser' for? > It has less options than su but does the same thing?! runuser is a "trimmed down version of su" (according to the manpage). Whereas su will allow you to get more permissions, runuser is a lightweight version for root to disclaim root privileges, and run a command with the permissions of a less-privileged user. It seems to be used mostly in start-up scripts: you don't want your Web server running as root in case someone finds a vulnerability. If the server is merely running as apache, then an attacker would have to find another vulnerability to become root. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | "We completely deny the allegations, and we're trying to aprilcottage.co.uk | identify the alligators."
