How do I run a command as a different user from a root cronjob?
- by rob
I seem to be stuck between an NFS limitation and a Cron limitation.
So I've got root cron (on RHEL5) running a shell script that, among other things, needs to rsync some files over an NFS mount. And the files on the NFS mount are owned by the apache user with mode 700, so only the apache user can run the rsync command -- running as root yields a…