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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice question - run as other
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:03:53 -0700
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>My question was how to do the same from rc. 

>@{echo -n none > '#c/user' ; while() {sleep 1} }

>succeeds but does not change the owner of the process. Why?

well, seems it would be bad if all you had to do to change userid was 
echo into '#c/user'

So, starting from that, the why should be apparent.

ron