Ideally the program will have an option you can specify to run it as a
particular user.  Otherwise, you can do this:

chown someuser mybinary
chmod 4755 mybinary



On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Alan Dayley wrote:

> I need to set a newly installed binary to run as a specific user (not
> root).  How do I do this?
>
> Alan
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