running cron jobs as specific users

[biot023]

Hallo.
I have a number of scripts I have written that I would like to run with cron, but they often need to be run by specific users (vision & oracle).
Is it possible to set these to be run as specific users?
& how would I do that?
Any & all help gratefully received.
Douglas JL

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[flugh]

I would try to 'su - <desired user>' while root, then 'crontab -e'. You would have to add that user to your cron.allow file too.

Giving a database or service-running user more ability to run commands on the system may not be desireable either. Maybe a long command like '/bin/su -l <user> -c <put the command to run as the other user>'.

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[patel]

or add user name in
/var/adm/cron/cron.allow and
login as user and setup cron
crontab -e

Patel

 

[ady2k]

use : crontab -u username -e
Note : users should have right to access the program/applications.
Or run the program/applications through sudo command on crontab.