setuser(8)

NAME
setuser - runs another program under a specified account's environment.

SYNOPSIS
setuser account child

DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments. setuser sets $GID, $UID, $SHELL, $HOME, and $USER to account's gid number, uid number, login shell, home directory, and user name, respectively. It changes the working directory to account's home, and sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, with supplementary groups set up. It then runs child. setuser cannot be run by anyone other than root.

EXIT CODES
setuser exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setup the environment, change directory, setgid, setuid, or run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.

SEE ALSO
envdir(8), envini(8), envuidgid(8), fghack(8), multilog(8), pgrphack(8), readproctitle(8), setlock(8), setuidgid(8), softlimit(8), supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svscan(8), svscanboot(8), svstat(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8)