Re: Kicking off script as another user

• To: "Joanna Green" <Joanna.Green@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Kicking off script as another user
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:48:53 -0700

Joanna,

>Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:49:20 +0000
>From: "Joanna Green" <Joanna.Green@xxxxxxxx>
>To: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Kicking off script as another user

The above message contained the following:

> Wondering if there is a way to kick off a script as another user from
> ldm.  Trying to kick off the Workstation Eta model after all of the Eta
> initialization tiles are in.  Would like to run it as the workstation
> eta user, not ldm.  I'm using c-shell scripts on a linux box.  Any
> suggestions?

An alternative approach (one that we use) is to have the LDM user and
the ETA user in the same group and ensure that the relevant directories
and files are created with group-write permission.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>

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