Question

I have a requirement to run a java jar on a low privilege user on linux.

e.g. If I am currently logged in as a ‘root’ user and want to execute a shell script that should run with the privileges of a low privileged linux user like ‘postix’ user account.

Is it possible?

If yes, please post relevant references as I don’t know how to do it.

Thanks in advance

Ashish

Answer 1

you can use the sudo command to run the script as another user.
If its set up properly, you can use it like this

sudo -u andrew myprog

will run myprog as the user andrew