su command question

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:12 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
>> The original poster wanted the script to run as the
>> user "ventrilo" and *not* as the user "root".
> 
> It's early in the morning and maybe there is a better solution, but it
> seems sensible to do the following if there isn't one:
> 
> sudo su ventrilo -c "/etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d"
> 
> The OP can the set up /etc/sudoers to allow running 'su ventrilo -c
> "/etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d"' without a password
 
What's wrong with: 

$ sudo -u ventrilo -s "/etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d"

:-)  It's no big deal, but probably a little less confusing when
modifying /etc/sudoers
-- 
derek