[Bro] how to run as non-root user?

[Christian Kreibich]

Hi there,

I'm a bit puzzled about the problem as well, because according to

> >    Unknown option: `-l'
> >    Usage: tcsh [ -bcdefilmnqstvVxX ] [ argument ... ].
                            ^
-l should work. Also, at least with GNU coreutils it doesn't make any
difference whether you use 'su -' or 'su -l'. su puts the basename of
the shell of the user that is su'd to into argv[0], prefixed with '-' to
indicate a login shell.

Bash's and ksh's manpages mention this, tcsh's manpage is imprecise in
saying argv[0] has to *be* "-" but its code only checks for the first
character being '-' (or the -l flag, as the manpage says).

Best,
Christian.

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:48 -0700, Roger Winslow wrote:
>
> As for bro.rc it was written for 'sh' and is compatible with 'bash'.  That's why
> the bang path is #!/bin/sh.  bro.rc was written to work on the widest number of
> systems possible and sh/bash are available everywhere.
> 
> I produced a simple shell script to simulate what you are referring to but was
> unable to reproduce the error.  brouser has a shell of /bin/tcsh and root has a
> shell of /bin/tcsh
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ "$1" = '1' ]; then
>         echo DONE
>         exit 0
> fi
> 
> su -l brouser -c "$0 1 < /dev/null"
> 
> If you can find more info on the error I will look into it further.
> 
>          Roger

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