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Executing external command as another user
I'm fairly new to Perl, which I'm using to do sysadmin and dba stuff, and I'm consistently running into a need to execute an external command as a user different from the user executing my Perl script, with all of that user's environment variables, privileges, etc. Seems as if that should be...- cmcclain0831
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- Forum: Perl
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Execute external command as another user
I'm fairly new to Perl, which I'm using to do sysadmin and dba stuff, and I'm consistently running into a need to execute an external command as a user different from the user executing my Perl script, with all of that user's environment variables, privileges, etc. Seems as if that should be...- cmcclain0831
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- Replies: 6
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
