Running Java Program as a specific user.

[Hasnain Javed Khan]

Hello all,

I have to run a utility on Ubuntu but that utility can be run only under a specific user group.I am using the ProcessBuilder class to run that utility but I don't know how to run the Java program (or the thread) under that specific user

Example: the utility dbmaint (Pervasive SQL) can be run only if you are under the user group "psql".

I would like to run dbmaint from my java program as a psql user. Any pointers code snippets would be really helpful

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards.
Hasnain.

[Paul Clapham]

Obviously there's nothing in the Java classes for that. So:

Figure out how to run the program as a specific user in your preferred shell

Run that shell command via ProcessBuilder