[Nut-upsuser] Request For Additional Status Confirmation

[Harlan Stenn]

On 3/7/2021 3:02 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
> Actually, su nut -c <script> . . . or it just runs as root, since you
> have not given it any other userid . . .

Check the man page for your OS.  The above is right for linux, not for *BSD.

It may be different for other OSes.

H
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> On March 7, 2021 2:13:58 PM CST, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Tim Dawson wrote:
> 
>         Su asks for nothing if executed as root . . . it already knows
>         it has
>         authority, so simply changes the user id the command is run as
>         (as I recall,
>         with "-c" to run a script).
> 
>         - Tim
> 
> 
>     Then « su -c "/usr/local/bin/myscript" nut » looks like the best choice.  Roger
> 
> 
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