<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Marcel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanuva@googlemail.com">tanuva@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
su $username -c "/program/binary"<br>
does the job, basically. Just that su requires you to enter a password on<br>
the command line. I don't know about another way though...</blockquote></div><br>if you are root you don't need the password to "su" as a normal user. <br>the problem is that if you don't set up a password for the root user this method is useless because one could in some way run a script from the browser taking the root privileges. <br>
<br>a false security is worst than no security!<br><br>-- <br>roby<br>