Hi friends,

I also had a similar problem, but mine is when I wrote a plugin for proftp to execute any command on a remote machine...Proftp is running as root, and sets the ownership and privileges of the user requesting the execution. However, when it runs a shell script (or anything that forks a terminal, the program run under it gets executed as root.

the temporary workaround I found for it is to su into user to a terminal, and run the command...something like:

su <user.group> -c "<command>"

but again, it is not a good solution, it forks 2 terminals instead of 1. Is there a better way to set the ownership of the user on a shell script when executed by a user?

Thanks in advance

Suraj

Rohan Poojary wrote:

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Hi Group, I am having a trouble with my Group ID/ UID whenever i am trying to open a knosole or trying to exe a script it uses this GID/UID, and when i am executing this script i am having a trouble of doing so, I hope i am clear in my problem

"id: cannot find name for group ID 506"

Rohan