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setuser - runs another program under a specified account’s environment.
setuser account child
account is a single argument. child
consists of one or more arguments.
setuser sets $GID, $UID, $SHELL, $HOME,
and $USER to account’s gid number, uid number, login shell, home directory,
and user name, respectively. It changes the working directory to account’s
home, and sets its uid and gid to account’s uid and gid, with supplementary
groups set up. It then runs child.
setuser cannot be run by anyone other
than root.
setuser exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account
named account, if it cannot setup the environment, change directory, setgid,
setuid, or run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.
envdir(8)
, envini(8)
, envuidgid(8)
, fghack(8)
, multilog(8)
, pgrphack(8)
,
readproctitle(8)
, setlock(8)
, setuidgid(8)
, softlimit(8)
, supervise(8)
,
svc(8)
, svok(8)
, svscan(8)
, svscanboot(8)
, svstat(8)
, tai64n(8)
, tai64nlocal(8)
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