[Casper] run script as different user?

[Miles Leacy]

Absolutely.
Think of and approach scripts just like packaging.  A big script requires a
lot of work to update and is more prone to problems.  Small scripts, even
containing a single command, are easy to write, troubleshoot & update.

2008/8/20 Smith, William <william.smith at merrillcorp.com>

>  On 8/20/08 12:31 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" <jeremymatthews at mac.com> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing at this point that since the script has a lot more running
> inside of it, it needs further dissasembly....something must be silently
> failing or changing it back. I know at one point we had a pseudo-security
> daemon that looked for new files, and would change them in whatever way that
> consultant saw fit (before my time).
>
>
> For a while I had a long post-imaging script that took care of things like
> network settings, antivirus updates, etc., then I adopted the modular
> approach even with my scripts. Now I have several smaller scripts but
> they're easier to maintain this way and I can apply them as part of the
> imaging process or run them individually to correct minor problems.
>
> If you've got one script doing several unrelated things then consider this
> approach.
>
> --
>
> bill
>
> William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
> MCS IT
> Merrill Communications, LLC
> (651) 632-1492
>
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