Re: cron things

 > From: Matt Holgate <[email protected]>
 > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:06:19 +0100 (BST)
 >
 > Why is sudo unsuitable?

    Well, one, not all hosts have it out of the box, whereas you can
expect an su. (though if you're managing the environment, sudo is
presumably everywhere.)

    The bigger thing is that sudo only does the setuid, retaining lots
of the original user settings.  I'm not aware of a "su - user"
equivelant for sudo, which is what you need to do for a lot of cases.
There's sudo -H, but that's only one small part of the problem.